Soren emil carlsen biography of mahatma gandhi

Soren Emil Carlsen was born in Copenhagen on October 19, He studied architecture at the Danish Royal Academy between and He emigrated to America in , settled in Chicago, and found work as an assistant to a local architect.

For a time he also worked for a fellow Dane, the painter Lauritis Bernhard Holst ().

Soren emil carlsen biography of mahatma gandhi

When Holst returned to Denmark in , he turned his studio over to Carlsen, who had by this time decided to become a full-time painter.

Upon the recommendation of the Chicago sculptor Leonard Wells Volk (), Carlsen was appointed the first instructor at the newly formed school of the Art Institute.

In Carlsen returned briefly to Denmark and then went to Paris, where he stayed for six months. While there, he carefully studied the works of the eighteenth-century painter Jean Simeon Chardin ().

Returning to New York in , the artist set up his own studio, but he had to supplement his meager income from painting by working as an engra