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Jorgen Dreyer
Jørgen Christian Dreyer (26 December 1877 – 17 November 1948) was a Norwegian-born American sculptor. He emigrated to the United States in 1903 and worked as a professor of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1907 to 1909. In his career Dreyer created a number of monumental sculptures, some of which are located in Kansas City, Missouri. His major works include: ''Life Drift''; ''The Goddess of Dawn''; ''Sphinxes'' (pair); ''Biology and Chemistry'' (pair of Atlas figures); ''Lionesses'' (pair); ''The Message'' (a bust of Archibald Butt); ''Bust of Sir Carl Busch''; ''Mercury, god of commerce''; and ''Bust of Major General Sterling Price''.
==Early life (1877–1909)==
Dreyer was born in Tromsø, Norway on 26 December 1877. He was the son of Hans Dreyer and his wife Regina Dreyer (née Mikkelsdatter). He grew to become a tall man, of slender build, and had blue eyes and auburn brown hair.〔 After schooling at the Latin School in Tromsø, he attended the Royal School of Art and Industries in Oslo. His first sculpture was in snow, of an old professor, which everyone recognized.〔Kansas City Star, Vol. 32, Issue 119, p. 10, 14 January 1912〕 So even though he had started in drawing and painting at the Royal Academy, he saw (and others recognized) that his true gifts were modeling and sculpting. He continued studies with Stephan Sinding, one of the greatest of European sculptors.〔Kansas City Star, p. 3, 17 November 1948.〕 Dreyer modeled a bust of an Ibsen character, which Ibsen saw at a school exhibition. Ibsen sought out Dreyer and complimented him in person.〔
After art school, Dreyer was considering a move to Paris to begin his career. But after a letter from his sister in Topeka, Kansas told of an awakening interest in art and a shortage of sculptors, the young sculptor decided to try America rather than the already overcrowded city of Paris. Dreyer went to America in 1903 and made Kansas City, Missouri his home for more than 40 years.〔Ford, Susan Jezak. ("Dreyer biography" ), 1999.〕
He moved into a studio and an apartment at 407 Studio Building (previously at the northwest corner of 9th Street and Locust) in Kansas City. He was a sculpture professor at the Fine Arts Institute (which later became the Kansas City Art Institute) from 1907 to 1909.〔Lawson, Patricia. "The Stones of Jorgen Dreyer", Historic Kansas City Foundation Gazette, pp. 1 and 5, August-September 1981. Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collection, location q977.8411 H673.〕 Dreyer was dismissed from the Art Institute because he used nude models, a charge for which Thomas Hart Benton (painter) would also be dismissed from the Art Institute in the 1930s.〔 He married Lorena E. McWilliams, one of his students, in 1918.〔
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