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'I' WIN CITIES@/ ~ , AL'30 INSIDE: TIIE IMAGINATIVE CREA1DRS OF TIIE ONE WORLD BENEFIT ST. PAUL'S RIVERFRONT PLANS AN INTRODUCTION TO "TIIE ARIS" AND ''TABLEAU'' VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3 TWIN CITIES® MARCH 1986 ----------------------------FEATVRES---------------------------- 35 OUTOFTHISWORLD A preview ofspringfashionfrom the palest ofpastels to socko sequins. By MARGOT SIEGEL & GLORIA HOGAN 42 ANATOMY OF A FUNDRAISER The One World Benefit in April owes its success to a glittering cast that includes names like Sadat, Kissinger, and Vanderbilt. How the extravaganza came to be says much about the spirit ofthese Twin Cities. By JAMES THORNTON 50 THE BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE A sampler ofchairs that beg you to sit in them. By DEBORAH VAIDA GoERrZ 54 IT'S A TREAT TO STICK YOUR FEET IN THE MISSISSIPPI MUD As it develops its riveifront, St. Paul wants to avoid trendiness, steer clear ofmega-retail centers, and make it a place where people can live, work, and play. By NORMAN DRAPER 69 AN ARTIST'S ODYSSEY Jakob Fjelde left us the statues ofOle Bull in Loring Park, and Hiawatha and Minnehaha near Minnehaha Falls. And at the tum ofthe century, he was a household name in the Twin Cities. By DAvmA. WOOD ---------------------------DEP~--------------------------- 8 LETTERS 104 TABLEAU ---THE ARIs----- Capturing Japan's rich artistic 10 ALLAROUNDTHE history. 80 VISUALARTS TOWNS Minnesota artist GendronJensen A user-friendly guide to March uncovers the bare bones ofart. events ofnote. By MARY MORSE ON THE COVER: Thefantasy world offashion 27 TWIN CITIES PEOPLE beautifolly brought to reality by cover rrwdel Jean 85 DANCE Jim Sitter, director ofthe Minnesota LeJuene, proprietor ofA Touch of Glass at The Ethnic Dance Theatre robustly Center for Book Arts; Judy Lutter, Riverplace and Bonaventure. Jean lives in Kenwood, swims against the CUTTent ofNew cofounder ofthe Melpomene Waves. JOHN TOREN takes piano lessons, and sings in her church choir. BY Institute; Bob DeFlares,film The stellar evening dress, designed by 500 Yung Lee, historian. 89 MUSIC is carried locally by Schlampp's. The diarrwnd pave The sound is hot-indisputably 94 OVER THE COUNTER ear clips and necklace were manufactured by Bet­ American-but so far, Ted Unseth's Retail oftwo cities. By MARGar lach Jewelers. Hair by LeeAnn Schmalzera. It was Classic Jazz is getting the cold SIEGEL & GLORIA HOGAN all captured by photographer Mark Luinenburg. shoulder. By DREW DARLING TWIN CITIES (WSSN 0274-5151) is published monthly by Dorn Communications, Inc., 7831 East Bush Lake Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435-3875. Ielep~one: 612/835-6855. WilliamJ. Dom, president; Richard H. Hoge, vice president; Rohert B. Whitlock, secretary. Subscription rates: $24 for 12 issues, $48 ill 24lSsues. Single-copy price: $2.50. Back issues available at $3.50 each. Second-class postage paid at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at additional mailing o ces. Copyright 1986 by Dorn Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. TWIN CITIES accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, art work, or photographs. Unsolicited materials must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope in order to be returned. POSTMASTER: Send address change to TWIN CITIES, 7831 East Bush Lake Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435-3875. TWIN CITIES MARCH 1986 5 sey Jakob Fjelde left us the statues of Ole Bull in Loring Park, and Hiawatha and Minnehaha near Minnehaha Falls. And at the turn of the century, he was a household name in the Twin Cities. By DAVIDA. WOOD UST INSIDE THE FRONT DOOR of the Rolf and Joyce Wunder home in Richfield is a three­ foot-tall clay model for a sculp­ ture group titled A Bay Playing Jwith Kittens, a work produced at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts in 1881 by a young Norwegian artist named Jakob Fjelde. The sculpture is by no means the Twin Cities' only permanent monument to the talents of this distinguished art­ ist. Jakob Fjelde left us the statues of Ole Bull in Loring Park, of Hiawatha and Minne­ haha near Minnehaha Falls, and of Minerva at the Minne­ apolis Public Library-all of which he created during the nine years he lived in Minneap­ olis after immigrating here in 1887. And he left us a bust of Henrik Ibsen, which he'd created in Norway and which stood in Como Park until it was stolen a few years ago. Furthermore, the Minnesota Historical Society, Augsburg College, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts have Fjelde busts in their collections. A statue of Henrik Ibsen that once stood in Como Park. Rolf Wunder, the grandson ofJakob's sister, claims no spe­ photographs of the Fjelde fam­ ALESUND, THEFJELDE cial artistic ability for himself or ily, and he is eager to pass on fanrily's home town his children. But he is the to his children a sense of pride in Norway, is a city owner of many papers and in their artistic heritage. A built on three is­ He wants them to know that lands that enclose a pic­ PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY at the turn of the century, turesque harbor about a third David Wood is a Minneapolis-based writer who specializes in Fjelde was a household name of the way up Norway's west Twin Cities history. in the Twin Cities. coast. Fishing has always been TWIN CITIES MARCH 1986 69 In the back row from the right Aalesund's chief reason for more than a decade his fami- a number of Norwegian cities. are Jakob and his sister Pauline. being. ly'splantoreuniteinAmerica. Jakob moved here in 1887 Jakob Fjelde's father, Paul, Jakob was just 14 when his along with his sister Pauline and his oldest brother, Osvold, father died. When he turned and brother Henrik. A year left Aalesund for Chicago in 17, he went to Christiania {now later, his mother and another 1872 on one of the last trans­ Oslo)-supposedly to study brother and sister also came atlantic sailing ships. Pau~ then woodcarving. Immediately from Norway, and his fiancee, a 45-year-old father of eight, upon his arrival, however, he Margarethe Madsen, arrived. was an accomplished wood­ took to haunting Christiania's from Copenhagen. carver and cabinetmaker who galleries and studios; he soon Jakob's reputation as a is said to have employed 14 set to work modeling two heads sculptor had preceded him to men in his shop. Osvold was in clay-one laughing and one Minneapolis, at least among 18 years old, no doubt eager crying. He later was described Scandinavian art lovers. "1 had for the adventure of new as reserved and taciturn, but heard of him, of course," wrote horizons. young Jakob had the temerity his friend John Arctander Father and son made it as fur to approach the foremost Nor- many years later, "for when he as Chicago-but both of them wegian sculptor of the time, was less than twenty years of caught smallpox within the Brynjulf Bergslein, to show him age, his first independent work, year, and Paul died. Osvold his work. The models were A Boy Playing with Kittens, moved on to Minneapolis, crude, but Bergslein recog- had attracted unusual attention where he became a cabinet­ nized Jakob's artistic promise in the Scandinavian countries maker and carpenter whose and invited him to study at his and the papers from the Old skilled hands have left their im­ studio. World were ringing with praise print on the interiors of many For the next 11 years, Fjelde of the youthful sculptor." Minneapolis homes. The death studied and worked as a sculp- Original and talented, Jakob of Paul Fjelde postponed for tor in Copenhagen, Rome, and was also diligent. During his 70 TWIN CITIES MARCH 1986 PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ROLF WUNDgJ 1 I t ~S. 37 I ne :ar ler ne ~e, ed. a to ng lad ate ler he . of Irk, ns, ion 'ies )ld ~ ;L' J,J.,b Fjdd.', Loring PMk m""'P;"" )ER PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ________...oT..:.:WI..:.:N;,:..' ~C:!,;IT~IE~S::-:M:;;A:!,;R;;,;C~H!.,.;;,;19~8:.:.:6 ____..:.7,;;.1 ___ Top: The gravestone of Claudine 1", and Jakob Fjelde. Below: The artist. first six years in Minneapolis, he produced at least 11 busts (most of them marble) and three major sculptures. The busts were of his mother, his brother Henrik, and several prominent Twin Citians, in. , Fjelde's reputation as a eluding the first two presidents i of Augsburg College, and S.E. sculptor had preceded Olson, who owned the depart. him to Minneapolis, ment store that became " Powers. at least among His fIrst New Wodd sculp. ture was 1889's Minerva, also Scandinavian art lovers. known as The Reading Wom· i an and The Muse of History, which stood over the entrance to the old Minneapolis Public Library for 70 years before be· ing moved to the new library, where it is enshrined today. Four years later, Jakob created the Minnesota Sol· dier's Monument at Gettysburg I' and his famous statue of Hia· : i watha and Minnehaha. Still, prosperity eluded him. He could not sell some of his works, while the prices of those he did sell offered a meager ' return for the long hours he'd ij i' devoted to producing work that i i met his exacting standards. ' And during those early years in , America, he was burdened with the cost of supporting an ever-increasing family. Kathe· rine was born in 1889, Veron­ icain 1890, and Paul in 1892. Being an artist and a father was not easy. AKOB FJELDE'S BEST­ known sculpture is the statue of Hiawatha aJld Minnehaha that stands Jon an island in Minnehaha Creek just above Minnehaha ' 12 TWIN CITIES MARCH 1986 TOP: PHOTOGRAPH COUREST ROLF WUND~ me Fjelde studied plwto­ graphs ofIndians and traveled to Mankato to see some Indians wlw were visiting there-but Hiawatha and )lis, usts Minnehaha still ended and up looking a bit too The , his Nonvegian for the art 'eral , in­ commissioner~ taste.

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