Soren Hansen

I'm Soren Hansen, I represent the Ejnar and Jorgen Hansen Estate.
Jorgen Hansen-
Born in Chicago, and the son of noted Danish expressionist portrait painter Ejnar Hansen, Jorgen had his first one-person show at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel at the age of 12.
He served as a navigator/bombardier in WWII, before attending the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, the Jepson Art Institute, and the USC School of Fine Arts. After studying in Paris at L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and in Mexico, where he taught at Mexico City College, Hansen completed his degree in fine arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught at Ventura College, served as the educational curator of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and participated in group shows in Paris, Mexico City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pasadena. Since 1978, he taught Figure Drawing in the Santa Barbara Adult Education program, where he built a devoted following. “I encourage students to view art, not as a way of earning a living,” he remarked in a 2005 interview, “but as a process of self-discovery that comes together as a symbolic product, a personal resolution of conflicts.”

Ejnar Hansen
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark on Jan. 9, 1884, Hansen attended the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He arrived in the U.S. in 1914 and lived in Michigan and Wheaton, IL before settling in Pasadena in 1924. He taught at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes, Pomona College, John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts. Hansen died in Pasadena on Sept. 26, 1965.

His oeuvre includes still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and figure compositions in oil and watercolor. His works won many awards in southern California exhibitions from 1927.

Member: LA AA; Pasadena Society of Artists.

Exh: AIC, 1918, 1945, 1946; LACMA, 1927 (1st prize), 1941, 1954; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1928; Calif. State Fair, 1930; Stickney Hall (Pasadena), 1932; Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1934, 1941; Academy of Western Painters (LA), 1936-37; Modern Art Gallery (Hollywood), 1936; Calif. WC Society, 1937-55; GGIE, 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939; Pottinger Gallery (Pasadena), 1940; Padua Hills Theater, 1942; CGA, 1943; Cincinnati Museum, 1945; Santa Paula High School, 1946; NAD, 1946; City Hall (LA), 1951; MM, 1952; San Gabriel Valley, 1953; Pasadena Art Inst., 1955, 1956 (solo); Laguna Beach, 1959 (solo); LA AA, 1962 (solo). In: ...