Beautiful Norwegian Fjord Scene, Oil on Canvas, Attributed to Adelsteen Normann

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A beautiful Norwegian fjord scene, oil on canvas in the original frame. This is a very detailed painting which gives a wonderful depiction of the space, light and sheer scale of the Fjords. There is a remarkably high level of detail and this is a painting that is both interesting and uplifting to the onlooker. This painting is strongly attributed to Adelsteen Normann who was a Norwegian artist who was so important that his paintings are credited with popularising the Fjords as a tourist destination. Normann (b.1848 d.1918) was born in Bodin in Norway. He studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1869 to 1872 and his paintings belong to the Dusseldorf school of painting. He studied with the Estonian painter Eugen Ducker. Normann based himself in Berlin from 1883 and his paintings were nearly always landscapes and invariably of the fjords of Norway where he would show the water combined with small houses and boats and steep mountainsides. Normann lived at the same time as Edvard Munch who was a fellow countryman. In the early 1890s, Normann was based in Berlin where he was doing good business selling his paintings to hotel owners. Normann had seen Munch's work when he had been exhibiting at Kristiania. Normann wrote to Munch asking if he would exhibit his work in Berlin. Munch was so overcome that he packed up his exhibition on 20 October 1892 and went to Berlin where Normann true to his word befriended him. Munch's work was placed in an exhibition which caused such a stir that the painters in Berlin split into two societies. (It was suspected that the underlying reason for Normann's invitation to Munch was to cause this split). Normann exhibited in Oslo, Berlin, London, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich and ParisAlthough based in Germany from 1883, he would return to Norway each summer. Normann and Hans Dahl both had large ornamented wooden villas near Balestrand where they would entertain. His "dragon style" house was bought in 1891 and built (like many Norwegian houses) from a pre-fabricated kit from the city of Trondheim. The house stayed with his heirs until 1934. Normann notably exhibited at the prestigious Salon de Paris from as early as 1882. His paintings earned a 'Mention Honorable' in 1884 and he was awarded a bronze medal in 1889. It is assumed that his fjord paintings contributed to make the Norwegian fjords a popular tourist destination. He died at Kristiania (now Oslo) on 26 December 1918, during the worldwide Spanish Flu pandemic. Normann's paintings are included in galleries in Bergen, Cincinnati, Cologne, Dresden, Leeds, Liverpool and Stockholm. In Normann's birthplace in 2010 is a dedicated gallery which has thirty of his paintings. Norway/Germany, circa 1880-1910.

Attributed to:
Asdelsteen Normann (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 45 in (114.3 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paint
Place of Origin:
Europe
Period:
Late 19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1880-1910
Condition:
Seller Location:
Gloucestershire, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU949410577713

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