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Born in Skelsior, Denmark in 1841, Carl
Christian Dahlgren served in the Danish Army during the Austro-Prussian
War and later enrolled at
the Copenhagen Academy of Arts where studied privately with Carsten
Henreksen. He immigrated with his younger brother, Marius to Salt Lake
City, Utah in 1872 where he worked as a draftsman and artist for the Surveyor
General's office. He moved to San
Francisco in 1878 and opened a studio. Dahlgren was an active member
of the San Francisco Art Association. He married and made his home in
Oakland where he would live the rest of his life. Primarily a
landscape painter, he also worked in genre painting, portraiture, as well
as a series of street scenes of San
Francisco following the 1906 earthquake. His illustration work
appeared in the Californian magazine over the years. Due to a shaft of sunlight often found in
his paintings Carl was referred to as
the "Sunshine Painter". The Dahlgren brothers signed
their paintings "Dahlgreen" when they first arrived in the United States
but dropped an "E" from their signatures after a short period.
Carl died in Oakland on
June 5, 1920.
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