Hans Dahl
Hans Dahl (19 February 1849 – 27 July 1937) was a Norwegian painter. He was best known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.
Hans Dahl

Hans Dahl · aus Melkild, Kunstnarliv, S. 71 · Public domain
- Born
- 1849. · Granvin Municipality.
- Died
- 1937. · Balestrand Municipality.
- Nationality
- Norway.
- Occupation
- painter and university teacher.
- Fields
- painting.
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
- Teachers
- Hans Gude.
- Honours
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav.
- Languages
- Norwegian.
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Hans Dahl (19 February 1849 – 27 July 1937) was a Norwegian painter. He was best known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.
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Hans Dahl (1849–1937) was a painter and university teacher, of Norwegian nationality. The painter was born in Granvin Municipality and died in Balestrand Municipality.
Hans Dahl was educated at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Activity centred on painting.
The work spans landscape and landscape painting. Languages used include Norwegian. Works are held at Hungarian National Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, among others.
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Background
Background
Hans Dahl studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Hans Gude is recorded. The recorded working language is Norwegian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Hans Dahl is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Hungarian National Gallery and Picker Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of St.
Hans Dahl was born in the village of Granvin, on the Hardangerfjord in Søndre Bergenhus, Norway. His talent was already evident when Dahl was 16 years old. However, it was only after service in the army that Dahl received artistic education. Hans Dahl was educated first to become an officer and became a lieutenant in 1871. He served in the Bergenske Brigade until 1874. After leaving the army, he apprenticed with Johan Fredrik Eckersberg and Knud Bergslien. He went to Karlsruhe, where he studied under Hans Fredrik Gude and Wilhelm Riefstahl and then to Düsseldorf, where his teachers included Eduard von Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn. His art became associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, which was characterized by finely detailed yet still fanciful landscapes.
Career
Career
Dahl had his first exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1876. Dahl lived in Düsseldorf until 1888, when he moved to Berlin. Almost every summer, he was back to Norway. In 1893, he commissioned the firm of Jacob Digre in Trondheim to build his summer residence, Villa Strandheim. It is located on the banks of the Sognefjord at Balestrand in the county of Nordre Bergenhus. Norwegian painter Adelsteen Normann had settled in Balestrand during 1891. Dahl's villa was of a similar design to the villa built for Normann. Between 1888 and 1919, Dahl lived mostly in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and spent only the summer in Balestrand. After 1919, Dahl no longer traveled to Berlin. Balestrand became a much visited tourist destination in western Norway. German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, became one of Dahl's patrons, conferring a professorship upon him in 1910, and visiting Dahl in Balestrand several summers in a row. Dahl resisted the transition in art from romanticism to modernism. In the 1890s a new school of art arose, and artists like Dahl were not very popular in the leading circles in the capital. He was particularly criticised by the art historian Jens Thiis. He was severely criticized by fellow artists especially by Christian Krohg, who was one of the leading figures in the transition from romanticism to naturalism which characterized Norwegian art in this period. Throughout his life, he increasingly narrowed his range of topics. Dahl often described the scenery of the western part of Norway in brilliant sunshine with smiling people in national costumes. His vibrant colors and charming portrayals of young Norwegian girls in their national costume have always been very popular.
Personal life
Personal life
Hans Dahl was married to Helene Bewer, the daughter of the German painter Clemens Bewer (1820–1884). Their son was the Norwegian painter Hans Andreas Dahl (1881–1919), who died of tuberculosis at the age of 37. In 1902 Dahl was appointed knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, 1st class. Hans Dahl died in Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane during 1937. His grave is located in the churchyard of Tjugum Church.

Portrait des norwegischen Malers Hans Dahl, Mai 1900
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