The Rourke Art Museum is presenting “My Father’s World,” an exhibit of the original prints of Kansas Swedish-American landscape artist Birger Sandzén. The exhibit of works is from the collection of Dr. James M. Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of French at MSUM, and is under the high patronage of his Excellency Jonas Hafström, Royal Ambassador of Sweden to the United States.
Dr. James M. Kaplan, professor emeritus at MSUM, has published a book about Birger Sandzén, a Swedish immigrant artist who came to America in 1894. In Birger Sandzén on Art, Music and Transcendence, published by Nordic Studies Press, Kaplan describes a brief cultural Camelot in America when immigrant artists, musicians and authors, nourished by the culture of the Old World, […]
Minnesota State University Moorhead will offer a Swedish language and culture course this fall for the first time in about 20 years. The course, taught by MSUM professor emeritus James Kaplan, will be open to MSUM students and community members.Kaplan, who retired in 2008 from MSUM as a French professor, lived and worked in Sweden and founded the Swedish Cultural Heritage Society of the Red River Valley. He was decorated by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden for his service to the Swedish American community. Click headline to read Amy Dalrymple’s full Forum story.