Ejnar Hansen 1884-1965 cd

Ejnar Hansen. Parti fra USA. Betitlet: landscape near Morro bay, California. Olie på pap, Signeret E Hansen, Passadena. 40 x 50 cm. Fremstår med to mindre tryklæsioner på hjørner. Ejnar Hansen was a notable figure painter in Southern California during the years between the wars. He began his career in Copenhagen, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts while supporting himself as a painting contractor. In Denmark he was a member of the secessionist group De Tretten (The Thirteen), which advocated modernist art. After immigrating to the United States in 1914, he settled in the Midwest, exhibiting and winning awards for his portraits at the annual exhibitions of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1925 he moved to California and the following year settled in Pasadena. Hansen?s art was generally somber, moody, and tending toward the melancholy, which aligns him with Scandinavian artists such as Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Although Hansen?s figure paintings were the most sought a