Video: Almost Pastoral Landscapes: Paintings by a Norwegian Painter Mocked by Avant-Garde Artists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The works of the Norwegian artist Hans Dahl are filled with positive emotions. Its permanent characters are smiling young beauties in national costumes. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. the painter refused to move from romanticism to modernism, which caused sharp criticism and ridicule for his almost pastoral subjects. Nevertheless, today reproductions of paintings by Hans Dahl are in demand among masters of decoupage, because charming girls in the middle of majestic fjords and mountains will cheer anyone up.
Hans Dahl (Hans Dahl) was born in 1849 in the city of Granvin (Western Norway). The artist's talent manifested itself in him in adolescence. Hans Dahl decided to associate his life with painting, but first he needed to undergo compulsory military service. After the army, the young man went to study with eminent artists in Germany in Karlsruhe, and then in Dusseldorf.
Meanwhile, the turn of the 19th-20th centuries was approaching, and innovative artists "burst into" painting. The avant-garde artists experimented with new concepts, simplified the image. Hans Dahl did not want to move from romanticism to modernism, which caused ridicule and criticism of modernists.
The Norwegian artist's work was dominated by native landscapes with fjords and high mountains, smiling girls in national costumes.
Hans Dahl married the daughter of the German artist Clemens Bever. His son Hans Anlers Dahl followed in his father's footsteps. Their manners are very similar. Contemporary art critics cannot agree on whose brush (son or father) later paintings belong. From this, Dahl Jr.'s paintings are often attributed to the work of his father.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when avant-garde art was gaining strength, there were such artists who preferred to create in their own manner. And if Hans Dahl was calm about the ridicule of innovative artists, then neoclassicist John William Godward failed to overcome harsh criticism of ill-wishers.
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