Yngvar Sonnichsen (March 9, 1873 – July 1938) was a Norwegian born, American artist and painter known especially for his portraits, landscapes and murals.[1]
Yngvar Sonnichsen was born in Christiania, (nowOslo, Norway to S.P. and Inga Mathea Sonnichsen. He studied at theNorwegian Institute of Technology inTrondhjem earning a civil engineering degree. He studied art at theNorwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry with Norwegian artistsOscar Wergeland andEilif Peterssen. Later, from 1895 to 1899, he attended theAcadémie Julian in Paris, studying withWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau andJean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.[2]
In 1904, Sonnichsen immigrated toSaint John, New Brunswick,Canada before moving toSeattle, Washington in 1908. In 1917, Sonnichsen and his brother architect Sønke Engelhart Sonnichsen, designed and decorated a Seattle lodge with original oil-on-canvas murals and painting. Now Raisbeck Performance Hall atCornish College of the Arts, in 1975 the building was designated as a Seattle historic landmark. The murals are now located in the Leif Erikson Lodge of the Sons of Norway in Ballard, Washington. Today, his works are also on display in municipal galleries in Oslo,Arendal andLaurvik, Norway,Decorah, Iowa andSeattle, Washington.[3][4][5][6]
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