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Bagge, Christian Ucherman

BORN: April 30, 1880 Tønsberg, Norway

DIED: August 17, 1932 Chicago

MARRIED: November 21, 1906 to Olivia Due, no children

TRAINING

School of Art and Handcrafts, Oslo, Norway, architecture

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1909 Hired by Daniel Burnham, work on design of The Chicago Plan, probably most famous city plan in United States after Washington, D. C.i

Head draftsman, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, Chicago. Responsible for drawings in Chicago of Union Depot, The Merchandise Mart and The Wrigley Building

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1880-1903 Norway

1903-1932 Chicagoii

TRAVEL

London and Europe

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Art Institute of Chicago, Life member; Chicago Club; Chicago Norske Klub, Chicago Norwegian Technical Society; Palette & Chisel Club

HONORS

1922 Dr. Nils Remmen Prize, Norwegian-American Art Exhibit

1926 Chairman, Norwegian-American Art Exhibit annual

1926 Oscar H. Haugan Prize, Norwegian-American Art Exhibit

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Norwegian-American Art Exhibit 1920, 1922-1928, 1930

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

i“Christian Ucherman Bagge,” Norwegian American Technical Journal, April 1933, p.80c.

iiOdd S. Lovoll, A Century of Urban Life, (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1988), p.193.

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