Franz M. Johansen

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Franz Mark Johansen (born 1928 in Huntsville, Utah and died August 23, 2018) was a Latter-day Saint sculptor and an emeritus professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). He has been called the founder of the LDS contemporary art movement that expresses spiritual belief through the human form.[1][2]

Johansen studied at BYU under

Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and the University of Miami
.

Johansen joined the BYU faculty in 1956. He remained a member of the faculty until his retirement in 1987. For some of this time Johansen was the chairman of the BYU Art Department.

Among works by Johansen are large relief sculptures on the exteriors of the LDS

BYU Museum of Art and the Harris Fine Arts Center. Johansen also did the sculpture of a family in the Winter Quarters cemetery. Johansen has also had an oil on canvass painting he did presented in shows.[3]

Johansen received first place at the 20th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah show at the

Springville Art Museum for his work Veiled Study.[4]

Johansen was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his wife Ruth Dolores Aldous (1928-2001) had seven children.

Notes

  1. ^ Types and Shadows exhibit biography for Johansen Archived 2009-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "In Memoriam: Visual Arts Sculptor, Painter, Adventurer, Pioneer: Franz M. Johansen (1928-2018)". 15 bytes. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. ^ listing of a show involving a painting by Johansen Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Deseret News, Nov. 20, 2005

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