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English: Fjord bei Holmestrand ("Fjord near Holmestrand", Norwegian: "Fjord ved Holmestrand")
  • Format: Oil painting on canvas, 38 x 52,5 cm
  • Artist: Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788 – 1857), Norwegian painter
  • Date: 1843
  • Depiction: The painting "Fjord near Holmestrand" by Johan Christian Dahl depicts a landscape with the Oslofjorden south of Oslo. In the foreground is rock formations and a figure wearing a top hat, looking out towards the ships and the moon on the horizon. The silver light of the moon is reflected on the water surface and several sailboats are returning home or have already anchored. The landscape is accurately represented and symbolically elevated, showing that Dahl had a rich source of motifs. The motif ensemble reveals Dahl's artistic proximity to Caspar David Friedrich.
  • Image copied from the online collections of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Kunstbibliothek (Sammlung Grafikdesign) marked with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://id.smb.museum/object/965623/fjord-bei-holmestrand
The Berlin State Museums (German: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SMB) are a group of museums and institutions in Berlin, Germany, that are run by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Object description by Birgit Verwiebe:
A young Norwegian had now come to Dresden, who caused great sensation among the students. His name was Christian Dahl. A large Nordic mountain landscape by him at the art exhibition caused the greatest commotion, and it is hard to imagine now what effect a work of such striking natural truth would have among the other shadowy, lifeless, mannered paintings. Only Dahl's friend Friedrich was an exception with his completely original, poetically conceived and deeply melancholic landscape paintings." (L. Richter, Life Memories of a German Painter, Leipzig 1909, p. 59).
Johan Christian Dahl, who settled in Dresden in 1818, remained closely connected to his Norwegian homeland throughout his life. Due to his preference for coastal areas, mountain regions, waterfalls, ships, and ports in daylight or moonlight, he referred to himself as a "more Nordic painter" (cited according to: Johan Christian Dahl, a painter friend of Caspar David Friedrich, Exhibition Cat., Munich 1989, p. 20). Already as a student in Copenhagen, Dahl developed this inclination and devoted himself to "nature in its wild state [...] and the areas of powerful scenes with mountains and forests" (Dahl, cited according to: ibid.). Dahl's artistic concept was rooted in the early romantic ideas that were familiar to him since his student days in Copenhagen: currents of sensibility and the cult of Ossian, as well as an increasing interest in Nordic prehistory and mythology, characterized the cultural life of the Danish capital at that time.
The Norwegian Dahl, like the "Swede" Caspar David Friedrich, wanted to counteract the classical Italian image with the Nordic landscape. Both artists repeatedly visited the places of their childhood and found inspiration there for their artistic work. Dahl made a total of five trips to Norway: 1826, 1834, 1839, 1844 and 1850. "I was told," he wrote to a friend, "that Norway is as beautiful as Switzerland [...] and when I see the poor prospects of Norway, it's as if a magnet is drawing me there to show a better picture of Norway" (Dahl, cited according to: ibid.). Through numerous studies and drawings, Dahl acquired a rich repertoire of motifs. His Nordic landscapes significantly shaped the romantic Dresden landscape painting.
A landscape study with the designation "Ved Holmestrand d 1st. Octbr. 1834 Dahl" (KODE Kunstmuseene, Bergen) and a precise sketch from 1843 (private ownership, USA) served as the basis for the painting "Fjord near Holmestrand". The artist captured the details of the fjord landscape located south of Oslo with great accuracy and at the same time symbolically elevated them. The moon, barely visible on the horizon, is reflected in silvery reflections on the water surface. Several sailing ships are returning home or have already anchored. Two boats bring travelers to shore. On the right in the foreground, next to rock formations, stands a man with a top hat; he looks out to the ships and the moon on the horizon. The motif ensemble with moonlight, ships, coast, sea, and the figure on the shore reveals Dahl's artistic proximity to Caspar David Friedrich.
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Author Johan Christian Dahl (1788 – 1857)

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