(1871-1954)

[Show as slideshow]

Painter, Engraver, Etcher, Lithographer, Designer, Teacher. Sandzen was born in Bildsberg, Sweden on February 5, 1871 and came to Lindsborg, Kansas in 1894. He studied at the Stockholm Art League with Zorn, Bergh, Erlandsson; and in Paris, with Aman-Jean. Sandzen died on June 19, 1954.

Member: American Watercolor Society; California Watercolor Society; Chicago Society of Etchers; Philadelphia Watercolor Society; Prairie Printmakers;.

Exhibited: Kansas City Art Association, KS, 1917; Philadelphia Watercolor Club, PA,1922; Taos Society of Art, NM, 1922.

Works held: Art Institute of Chicago, IL; British Museum, London, Great Britain; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Museum of New Mexico, Sante Fe, NM; The Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS; United States Post Office, Lindsborg, KS; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.