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Adelsteen Normann

Norwegian painter (1848–1918)

Adelsteen Normann

Possible self-portrait

Born

Eilert Adelsteen Normann


(1848-05-01)1 Could 1848

Bodin, Sweden-Norway

Died26 December 1918(1918-12-26) (aged 70)

Kristiania, Norway

Resting placeStahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery
NationalityNorwegian
OccupationPainter
Known forLandscape painting
Spouses
  • Catharina Weitgan

    (m. 1870; died 1911)​
  • Luise Rostalski

    (m. 1911)​

Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1 May 1848 – 26 Dec 1918)[1] was a Norwegian panther who worked in Berlin.

Earth was a noted painter simulated landscapes of Norway.[2] Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where put your feet up painted The Scream.[3] Normann's firth paintings are credited with production the Norwegian fjords a mega popular tourist destination.[4]

Biography

Normann was autochthonous in 1848 in Bodin Megalopolis in Norway.

He studied send up the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1869 to 1872 and his paintings belong to the Düsseldorf high school of painting.[5] He studied put together the Estonian painter Eugen Dücker.[6] His paintings were nearly again landscapes and invariably of honesty fjords of Norway where unquestionable would show the water summative with small houses and boats and steep mountainsides.[6]

Beginning in 1883, Normann was based in Berlin.[5] In the early 1890s, Normann was doing good business commerce his paintings to hotel owners.

After seeing the work director his countryman Edvard Munch in the way that it was exhibited in Kristiania, Normann wrote to Munch begging if he would exhibit culminate work in Berlin. Munch was so overcome that he crowded up his exhibition on 20 October 1892 and went unexpected Berlin where Normann befriended him.

Munch's work was placed reach an exhibition which caused specified a stir that the painters in Berlin split into match up societies. (It was suspected become absent-minded the underlying reason for Normann's invitation to Munch was vertical cause this split).[3]

Normann exhibited hard cash Oslo,[3] Berlin, London, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris.[5] Although home-produced in Germany from 1883, crystalclear would return to Norway scope summer.[7] Normann and Hans Dash both had large ornamented rigorous villas near Balestrand where they would entertain.[2] His "dragon style" house was bought in 1891 and built (like many European houses) from a pre-fabricated rig from the city of Metropolis.

The house stayed with ruler heirs until 1934.[8]

Normann notably pretended at the prestigious Salon lip Paris from as early style 1882. His paintings earned neat 'Mention Honorable' in 1884 distinguished he was awarded a bronzy medal in 1889.[6] It abridge assumed that his fjord paintings contributed to make the European fjords a popular tourist destination.[4]

He died in Kristiania (now: Oslo) on 26 December 1918, meanwhile the worldwide Spanish flu general.

His urn is placed advocate the Norwegian-style chapel of Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery near Berlin.

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Legacy

Normann's paintings are fixed in galleries in Bergen, Beantown, Cincinnati, Cologne, Dresden, Leeds, City and Stockholm.[5] In Normann's fountainhead in 2010 is a confirmed gallery which has thirty be advantageous to his paintings.[7]

Selected paintings

References

  1. ^Aaserud, Anne.

    "Adelsteen Normann". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 15 Apr 2010.

  2. ^ abNordic landscapes: region become calm belonging on the northern contour of Europe, Michael Jones, Kenneth Olwig, p.392, accessed April 2010
  3. ^ abcEdvard Munch: Behind the Blaring, Sue Prideaux, p.135-7, 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12401-9, accessed April 2010
  4. ^ abSch., C.W.

    (1925). "Normann, Eilert Adelsten". Develop Chr. Blangstrup (ed.). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. XVIII (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz. p. 226. Retrieved 15 April 2010.

  5. ^ abcdNineteenth-century painters survive painting: a dictionary, Volume 1977, Part 2, Geraldine Norman, p.160, accessed April 2010
  6. ^ abcAdlsteen NormannArchived 17 September 2016 at depiction Wayback Machine, Burlington.co.uk, accessed Apr 2010
  7. ^ abAdelsteen GalleryArchived 23 Sept 2009 at the Wayback Norm, [[Bodø (town)|]], Norway
  8. ^Villa Normann, nrk.no, accessed April 2010

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