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Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen

Born Feb. 24, 1788, in Bergen; died Oct. 14, 1857, in Dresden. Norwegian painter and graphic artist; founder of Norwegian national landscape painting.

Dahl studied in Bergen (c. 1808) and at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen (from 1811). From 1818 he lived in Dresden (professor at the Academy of Art from 1824). During the summer months he often visited Norway. He came under the influence of German romanticism. He painted mostly rugged mountains and Norway’s turbulent rivers and its quiet valleys and lakes (Stahlheim: Landscape With Rainbow, 1842, the National Gallery, Oslo).

REFERENCES

Østby, L. J. Ch. CI. Dahl: Tegninger og akvareller. Oslo, 1957.

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And Johan Christian Clausen Dahl's small but poignant Mother and Child by the Sea of 1840 (right) is the only moonlight painting by him in a British collection.

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Carl Gustav Carus produced his romanticised version in 1822; in 1839 Johan Christian Clausen Dahl cast the view from the Elbe in moonlit gloom (overleaf); and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner placed himself in the same spot to produce a jolly, vividly coloured version in 1910.

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