Friday, January 17, 2025

Frits Thaulow
(1847 - 1906)
 
Frits Thaulow was a Norwegian Impressionist painter, best known for his naturalistic depictions of landscape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Thaulow



Winter at the River Simoa
1883
Oil on canvas
78,5 x 49,5 cm
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design,  Oslo, Norway


Thursday, January 16, 2025

Michael Ancher
(1849 - 1927)
 
Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ancher


The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes
1883
Oil on canvas
221 x 171 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1222

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Frants Henningsen
(1850 - 1908)
 
Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen was a Danish painter, illustrator and professor. His paintings depict unfortunate occurrences in the lives of middle-class people living in Copenhagen during difficult times. His connections with Denmark's more traditional, realist school encouraged criticism from many of his more reactionary contemporaries, especially Karl Madsen who objected to his appointment as a professor at the Academy in 1887. Erik Henningsen, also an artist, was his younger brother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frants_Henningsen


A Funeral
1883
Oil on canvas
141.5 x 95 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1218

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was first exhibited in the so-called "exhibition of rejects" of 1874–an exhibition initiated by Monet and like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Snow at Argenteuil
1875
Oil on canvas
71 x 91 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-snow-scene-at-argenteuil

Monday, January 13, 2025

Johan Christian Dahl
(1788 - 1857)
 

Johan Christian Claussen Dahl often known as J. C. Dahl or I. C. Dahl, was a Danish-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 by the greatest European artists of his day. He was also the first to acquire genuine fame and cultural renown abroad. As one critic has put it, "J.C. Dahl occupies a central position in Norwegian artistic life of the first half of the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Christian_Dahl

Winter at the Sognefjord
1827
Oil on canvas
61.5 cm × 75.5 cm
National Gallery (Norway), Oslo
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/objekt/NG.M.03138

Sunday, January 12, 2025

 Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
(1803 - 1862)
 
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer.  His father was a Dutch renowned marine painter and his brothers were also both successful artists, the first as a painter of marine subjects and river scenes, the second as a landscapist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend_Cornelis_Koekkoek
 

Winter Landscape, Holland
1833
Oil on Wood
35.6 x 43.2 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436826


Saturday, January 11, 2025

Utagawa Hiroshige
(1797–1858 )
 

Utagawa Hiroshige ( 歌川 広重 ), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige

Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"
ca. 1833–34
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
22.5 x 34.9 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56915

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