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Nordic Paintings
Scandinavian Countries
Children Skating Outside Faberg. 1901. Peter Hansen (1868-1928) Danes. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 13 May 2006.
First created 1 Feb 2021. Version 1.0 18 Mar 2021. Daperro. London.

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Denmark

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Abildgaard (Denmark) 1800
This is a Neoclassical paintings at the end of 18C. There is little Nordic style in this painting.

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Blunck (Denmark-German) 1836

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Eckersberg (Denmark) 1814
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
(1783-1853) is a well-known Danish
painter. His portraits dominated
Danish painting to the end of 19C,
with its seeming realism, coupled
with details and rigorous clarity of
composition, embedded in everyday
ritual.
He studied under Abildgaard at the
Copenhagen Academy. During
1810-16, he worked in Paris and
then 3 years in Rome and studied
under Jacques Louis David from
1811-1812. Then went to Rome via
Florence.
He went on to lay the foundation for
the period of art known as the
Golden Age of Danish Painting. He is
referred to as the Father of Danish
painting.

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Eckersberg (Denmark) 1841
When Eckersberg returned to
Copenhagen from Rome, he became
a professor at the Academy from
1816.
At time, he painted historical subjects
for the royal palace of Christiansborg
and for some years dominated portrait
in which he combined keen
observation with austere Neoclassical
composition. In the 1820s he turned
to marine painting, including painting
of ships.
He also reformed the Academy’s,
giving study from life a new important,
and also wrote textbooks on
perspective.

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Eckersberg (Denmark) 1813

8.
Hansen (Denmark) 1837

9.
Juel (Denmark) 1870s
Jens Juel (1745-1802) is a Danish
painter. He is a contemporary of
CW Eckersberg (1783-1853).
In 1772, he travelled to Rome,
where he worked between 1774-
76. He returned to Denmark in
1780 via Paris and a three years
stay in Geneva.
Trained in Hamburg, he was the
most successful portrait and
landscape painter in Denmark of
his time.
Juel painted sober and intimate
likeness of townspeople and
professional men in a manner
derive from the Dutch 17C.

10.
Kobke (Danish) 1832
Christen Kobke (1810-1848) was an
early 19C Danish painter. He studies
at the Royal Academy, in
Copenhagen from an early age of 11
until 1832 and began as an
outstanding painter of portraits,
landscapes and seascapes and
occasional genre scenes.
His painting is mostly calm, luminous,
factual presentation of unexceptional
subjects tends to hide behind its
nationalist pride and, through the
inclusion of significant symbolic
objects., his Romantic need to
incorporate moral meaning.

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Kobke (Denmark ) 1834

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Kobke (Danish) 1833
Amazing gaze of eyes.

13.
LA Ring (Denmark ) 1880
LA Ring (1854-1933) is a Danish
Realist and Symbolist painter, around
1900.
In recent years LA Ring is a key
painter to have broken through
internationally. His paintings is
radical artistic and held an important
place in Nordic painting at the turn of
the 20th century.

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LA Ring 1894

15.
Kroyer (Denmark ) 1884
A lone little girl on the beach unable to join the naked
boys playing in the sea. (full painting on next slide)
Peder Severin Kroyer (1851-1900)
was a Danish painter born in the
fishing town of Stavanger, Norway.
Today it is the Oil capital of Norway
with over 11% of foreign population in
the city.
Kroyer was bought up Copenhagen,
where he studied in the Royal
Academy. He travelled wide and
spent some time in Paris, before
moving and settled down in Skagen.
He became one of the Skagen group
of artists.
He was known internationally in his
life time. His painting is lively,
naturalistic and often painted about
outdoor.

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Kroyer (Denmark ) 1884

17.
Kroyer (Denmark ) 1883

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Kroyer (Denmark ) 1888

19.
Michael Ancher (Denmark ) 1880

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Michael Ancher (Denmark ) 1883

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Michael Ancher (Denmark ) 1896

22.
Anna Ancher nee Brondum (1859-
1935) was a one of Denmark’s greatest
visual artist. She was a colourist and a
character painter. An example of her
work is this painting.
Anna Ancher was married to Michael
Ancher, (1859-1935), who was also a
painter.
Anna was associated with the Skagen
Painters, an artist colony on the
northern point of Jutland, Denmark.
Anna Ancher (Denmark ) 1880

23.
Anna Ancher (Denmark ) 1880
‘The Funeral’ is a very unusual subject for a painting. Did the painter suggest that
being a fisherman with a young family is a very dangerous ways of life?

24.
Anna Ancher (Denmark ) 1883
The ‘girl’ wore a few simple garments.
If you at her closer, you will see the
folds on her neck. In front ou her was
just a simple cloth used to curtain.
The weather look sunny and the
fisherman was still fishing before
coming home for his dinner.
The painting depicted a fisherman’s
kitchen as suggested by the fishes
on the stool. The kitchen was very
bare. There were only a few utensils.
It was a small kitchen and the door
was opened to allow air to come into
the kitchen, presumably for the
boiling water in the kitchen behind
us (not seen). The dividing wall
between the window was close,
suggesting it was also a small
house. It was not the kitchen of a
wealthy man.

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Henningsen (Denmark ) 1888

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Bache (Denmark) 1892

27.
Engle (Denmark ) 1899

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Hammershoi (Denmark ) 1901
Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-
1916) was a Danish painter His
is known for his poetic, subdued
portraits and interiors.
His paintings are best described
as muted in tone. He refrained
from employing bright colours,
opting always for a limited
palette consisting of greys, as
well as desaturated yellows,
greens, and other dark hues.
His tableaux of figures turned
away from the viewer project an
air of slight tension and mystery,
while his exteriors of grand
building in Copenhagen
Wikipedia on Hammershoi.

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Willumsen (Denmark ) 1902
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
(1863-1958) has been
called a liberator of
Danish art and there is no
doubt that he is one of its
most ground breaking
personalities. Yet although
throughout his life he
boldly challenged borders,
both geographic and
mental today he remains
almost unknown outside
Demark. https://Odrupgaard.dk

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Norway

31.
Dahl (Norway) 1829

32.
Dahl (Norway) 1829
J C Dahl (1788-1857) a
Norwegian landscape painter
worked mainly in Dresden,
as a professor at the
Academy.
The painting depicts an
ancient burial tomb, marked
by a circle of stones. The two
trees, their trunks separate
but their branches cradling
each other with tenderness
reminiscent an old couple,
are clearly the main
protagonists of the painting’s
narrative.
The tomb reminds us of the
past, the trees and the birds
are the present and spouting
leaves yet to come.

33.
Dahl (Norway) 1827

34.
Tidemand (Norway) 1875

35.
Thaulow (Norway) 1880

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Thaulow (Norway) 1886

37.
Munch (Norway) 1893
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), was a
Norwegian Expressionist painter.
His most formative years was in
Paris and Berlin. His paintings
sometimes powerful is also
neurotic and frequently hysterical.
The Scream possibly his most
well-known work depicted a
screaming agonized face on a
stylized head. It was a study of
self, an iconic images of art, seen
as symbolizing the anxiety of
human condition.

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Sweden

39.
Birger (Sweden) 1886

40.
Zorn (Sweden) 1897
Ander Zorn (1860-1920), was a
Swedish foremost painter who had
achieved international fame for his
portraits. He painted King Oscar II of
Sweden and three US presidents
Zorn painted ‘Midsummer Dance’ in
the dark-light of the Nordic summer
evening in which the sky seems to
oscillate between dusk and daybreak.
It shows a village in the background
with a loose group of darkly clad men
dancing on a grassy floor.
At the age of 15 he entered the
Swedish Academy. The he travelled
widely throughout Europe, before return
to Sweden.

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Zorn (Sweden) 1906
Zorn lived in Mora, work
repeatedly with models from the
rural areas,
In this painting, the lack of names
and facial details, emphasizes the
sexualized female body and their
nakedness, as a sexual object.
Girls from Dalama Having a Bath.
1906. Oil on canvas. 84x50.5 cm.
Anders Zorn, Swedish.
Nationalmuseum of Fine Art.
Stockholm.

42.
Brofeldt (Sweden) 1898

43.
Bergh (Sweden) 1899

44.
Larsson (Sweden) 1901

45.
Jansson (Sweden) 1907

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Finland

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Gambogi (Finland) 1893

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Bjerre (Finland) 1897

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Halones (Finland) 1900

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Gallen-Kallela (Finland) 1905

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Kellokumpu (Finland) 1927
Kaisa Maija Kellokumpu (1892-
1935) was a Finnish painter. She
painted landscape paintings
representing him home region of
Lapland.
The reindeer in the painting
appeared as a representative of
the region. Kellokumpu appeared
to reverse the painting back to
romantic nationalist period on art
development in Finland. The
elevated viewpoint provided a
sweeping view across the
landscape.

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Misc

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Porlaksson (Icelandic) 1905

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Waagstein (Faroese) 1918

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Joensen-Mikines (Faroese) 1942

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