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Yngvar Sonnichsen was born in Christiania, Norway to S.P. and Inga Mathea Sonnichsen.
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Yngvar Sonnichsen
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He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondhjem earning a civil engineering degree. He studied art at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry with Norwegian artists Oscar Wergeland and Eilif Peterssen. Later he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, studying with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.
Career
In 1904, Sonnichsen immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada before moving to Seattle, Washington in 1908. Now Raisbeck Performance Hall at Cornish 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.
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United States