Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen (April 20, 1840 – 1920) was a Danish-American artist and designer. Trained as an architect, he is known for his designs in a wide variety of disciplines.
Early life and education
Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen was born on April 20, 1840, to Ludvig Ipsen and Mette Margrethe Ipsen (née Bøgh) in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1]
After military service, Ipsen worked for a few years in the office of a Copenhagen architect before emigrating to the United States. He found work with the Boston architect Henry W. Hartwell, and was later a member of the firm Hartwell & Swasey. By 1875, he had abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of the decorative arts and illustration. He did, however, return to architecture at least once, for the design of a crematorium chapel.
Book illustration
Ibsen was employed as a staff illustrator by the James R. Osgood publishing firm in Boston and also worked for several other local publishers.
Chapter heading for The Prince and The Pauper by L. S. Ipsen
Shortly after the Boston-based men's choral society, the Apollo Club, was incorporated, Ipsen was commissioned by Arthur Reed, the club secretary, to illustrate the club's publications, and he designed 130 program covers over the course of 23 years, as well as designing the club's seal in 1876. The club's records, now held by the Massachusetts Historical Society, include fifty-one original illustrations created for Apollo Club concert programs.[5]
Typography
In 1903, Ipsen was granted two patents for typefaces created for the American Type Founders Company (ATF): Florentine Bold Condensed (pat. no. 36,366)[6] and Florentine Bold Extra Condensed (pat. no. 36,367).[7] The fonts were variants of the Florentine typeface which first appeared in the ATF 1896 catalog. That catalog did not acknowledge a designer but the typographical historian Max McGrew credited Ipsen[8] and the National Museum of American History holds original drawings for the related font Florentine Heavy dated 1896 and ascribed to Ipsen.[9] He also designed decorative borders and initials for ATF.
Florentine Bold Extra Condensed font, ATF catalog, 1912
Decorative borders, ATF catalog, 1900
Decorative initials, ATF catalog, 1900
Architecture and architectural elements
In 1893, the Massachusetts Cremation Society opened a crematorium designed by Ipsen and built of Roxbury felsite in the neoclassical style. Now owned by Forest Hills Cemetery, it includes the Lucy Stone Chapel, named after the Boston abolitionist and suffragist who was the first person cremated there.[10]
Ipsen emigrated to the United States in 1867, arriving first in New York, where he married Emma Petrea Petersen (1846–1914)[12] in Manhattan on August 10, 1868.[13] Emma, also born in Copenhagen, was a well-known mezzo-soprano who performed in recital halls and churches.[14][15] She was the sister of John Petersen (1839–1874), a marine painter also known as Johan Erik Christian Petersen.[16]
The couple had moved to Malden, Massachusetts by the following year when their son, Ernest, was born.[17]Ernest Ludvig Ipsen (1869–1951) became an internationally renowned portrait painter.
Gallery
L. S. Ipsen, The Prince and The Pauper chapter heading, 1881
L. S. Ipsen, Half-title illustration, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, 1886
L. S. Ipsen, Title page ornament, The Scarlet Letter, 1878
L. S. Ipsen, Contents page header, The Scarlet Letter, 1878
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto 6, illustrated by Ludvig S. Ipsen, 1885
Sonnets from the Portuguese, title page, 1886
References
^"Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQM-BS4D : 17 August 2021), Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen, 1855; Confirmation, Garnisons, Copenhagen, Denmark, , Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
^From "American Printer and Lithographer, Volumes 3-4:"
^"Sonnets from the Portuguese". The American Bookmaker. III (4). New York: Howard Lockwood & Co.: 106–108 October 1886. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
^Martin, Susan (September 17, 2014). "The Art of Ludvig Sandṏe Ipsen". Massachusetts Historical Society: Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
^"Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4ZN-JLZ : 2 March 2021), Ludvig S Ipsen in entry for Emma Petrea Ipsen, 05 Mar 1914; citing Medford,,Massachusetts, 72, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,404,363.
^"New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24ZR-KJG : 10 February 2018), Ludvig Ipsen and Emma Petersen, 10 Aug 1868; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,544,135.
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