His remains were brought back to Norway and buried in the cemetery of St
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Johan Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, often known as J. C. Dahl or I. C. Dahl, was a Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. He is often described as "the father of Norwegian landscape painting" and is regarded as the first Norwegian painter to reach a level of artistic accomplishment comparable to that attained…
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culture · Norwegian artist (1788–1857) · painter · professor · landscape painter · also Johan Christian Dahl, J.C. Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, Johan-Christian-Clausen Dahl, J. C. Dahl, John Christian Clausen Dahl
Born 24 February 1788 · Died 14 October 1857 · Q164735
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1902· 1 entry
A statue of Dahl by Norwegian sculptor Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859–1948) was erected on the facade of the Permanenten in Bergen
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1857· 1 entry
Died 1857-10-14.
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1847· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of St. Olav (1847).
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1840· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (1840).
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1839· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of Vasa (1839).
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1834· 1 entry
1839, 1844, and 1850, mostly exploring and painting the mountains, leading to the monumental works Fortundalen (1836) and Stalheim (1842)
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1828· 1 entry
To the director of the Dresden academy, he found the area around Dresden useful for nature studies, but the "real thing" was always missing; that was something he could only find in his mountainous homeland
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1827· 1 entry
Emilie Dahl died in childbirth while having their fourth child, and two years later two of the older children died of scarlet fever
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1824· 1 entry
And Friedrich were named "extraordinary professors" who had no chair but who received a regular salary
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1823· 1 entry
Dahl moved in with Friedrich, so that many of his students, such as Knud Baade, Peder Balke, and Thomas Fearnley, were equally influenced by both artists
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1820· 1 entry
From Italy and invited him to join him at the Gulf of Naples
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1819· 1 entry
Entitled Norsk fjellandskap med elv (Mountainous Norwegian landscape with river"), garnered great attention among younger artists who considered the striking natural quality of the painting a breath of fresh air on Dresd
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1818· 1 entry
That "most of all I am representing nature in all its freedom and wildness
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1812· 2 entries
Wrote to Sagen that the landscape artists he most wished to emulate were Ruisdahl and Everdingen, and for that reason he was studying "nature above all," Dahl's artistic program was, then, already in place: he would b
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But his real breakthrough came in 1815, when he exhibited no fewer than 13 paintings
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1811· 1 entry
To complete his education at the academy there
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-02-24.
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