Paintings

FLINTOE, JOHANNES (Copenhagen 1787 - 1870)
"Rjukan Falls"
Oil on canvas, 50x39,5cm. Unsigned. Probably painted in the 1820/30's.
Johannes Flintoe was Danish, born in Copenhagen, and educated in painting and drawing and worked as a craftsman. Because of a weak health he moved to Christiania in 1811 and lived here until he returned to Copenhagen in 1851. Flintoe is regarded to be a "key person" in the early Norwegian independent art history from 1814 up to the Norwegian national romantic movement. His Norway tours after 1819 and his friendship with William M. Carpelan were of essential importance for his career as an artist.
The great majority of Flintoe's paintings are gouaches. He mastered this technique to perfection and it became a speciality for him. But he did some oil paintings as well.


Our fine painting of Rjukan Falls is a classic view in the Norwegian art history and the impressive cascade in Telemark has been painted by several artists through the 19th Century. Our painting had earlier an attribution to W. Carpelan and there is an aquatint of Rjukan Falls in part III in his main work "Voyage pittoresque...". This shows close resemblence with our painting. However there is no reason or evidence that Carpelan ever did oil paintings ( in 1826 Carpelan participated in an exhibition in Stockholm at the Academy where it is has been supposed that he exhibited 21 oil pictures. These would more likely have been gouaches). Regarding this oilpainting of Rjukan Falls, the attribution to Flintoe is supported by the style and the technique used and the compariasion with other oil paintings by Flintoe from the 1820's. Carpelan and Flintoe worked together and borrowed motives from each other. Norsk Hydro is the owner of a large oil version by Flintoe of Rjukan Falls.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon volume I, both artists Carpelan and Flintoe)
#701

BERGSLIEN, KNUD LARSEN (Voss 1827 - Kristiania 1908)
"A scene from a peasant home at Voss 1862"
Oil on canvas, 71,5x81,5cm. Signed and dated lower right: "K. Bergslien 1862". Painted in Düsseldorf 1862
Knud Bergslien grew up at Voss near Bergen. His brother was the sculpture artist Brynjulf and the painter Nils Bergslien was his nephew. The first painting education was given Knud by Hans Reusch in Bergen. These early years portraits were his common subjects. Besides to studies in Antwerp and later in Bergen he tought pupils in drawing and painting in a "Tegneskole" founded by Lyder Sagen. Most important for him as an artist was the arrival to Düsseldorf in 1855. He stayed there no less than fourteen years until 1869 and made a great international success with his historical works like "Birkebeinerne" and several genre paintings from his home country Norway. After the Düsseldorf years he returned to Christiania and became the leader of the well reputated "Bergsliens Malerskole". Later works by Bergslien are again mostly portraits.
Knud Bergslien's best works executed during the Düsseldorf years are next to Adolph Tidemand's the most important in the Norwegian National Romantic tradition of genre paintings.

Our painting from 1862 is a masterpiece of its kind and is one of Knud Bergslien most impressive and decorative among the genre paintings. A similar work, but dated the year after in 1863 is reproduced on page 35 in Thor Warberg "Bergslien-målarane - Folkeliv i farger". Our painting is in perfect condition. The ornamented gilt frame is the original.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon volume I, Thor Warberg "Bergslien-målarane - Folkeliv i farger" Selja Forlag 2008, Magnus Dagestad "Dei tre Bergsli-Kunstnarane" Voss 1945)
#705

LIND, ANDREAS (Stjørdalen 1815 - London 1885)
"Brigada Af Drammen, Cap TN I. P. Calmeyer 1871" (Owned by Hans Scheel and later Klaveness).
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 49,5x77cm excluding text panel and margins. Signed and dated lower right: "Tegnet af Andreas Lind i London 1871". Painted in London in 1871
AN IMPRESSIVE MARINE WORK EXECUTED BY, TOGETHER WITH F. SØRVIG THE LEADING NORWEGIAN SHIP PORTRAIT PAINTER OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
"Brigada" was built in St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada in 1861. Later in 1860's it was sold to B. Holst and other in Drammen and further to Hans Scheel also in Drammen in 1867. He was the owner when Lind painted the ship. In 1872 sold to W. Klaveness, Fredriksværn and to A.F. Klaveness and other in Sandefjord 1875. The ship was sold to a ship breaker in Fredrikstad in 1898. We also find information about the vessel in the Shipping Register of Det Norske Veritas from 1870.
Andreas Lind was educated as a sea captain in Trondheim 1840 and moved to London in 1860 where he started to paint ship portraits. The ships are usually shown under full sail off a coastline and with the ship's and captain's name in a separate lining along the bottom where the letters are very accurately drawn. In London, Lind was commissioned by especially Norwegian and German captains to paint their ships.

Our very fine work by Lind showing "Brigada Af Drammen" shows the vessel under full sail calling for a pilot with white cliffs in the distance. The sky and the sails are painted in watercolour and heightened in white. The hull and the sea section is painted in gouache.
An overall light brown tone to the paper makes the impression that the colour rich areas almost stand out of the picture. In very good condition. The frame is probably the original.
Provenance: Ex-collection of the Maritime Historian Holm-Petersen of Troense, private collection Northern Germany, private collection Oslo.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon volum II, Karsten Buchholz "Ship Portrait Artists - A Dictonary and Guide for Collectors" Hamburg 1997 pages 78-79. The picture illustrated on page 78 and in colours on plate 6)
#714

BAADE, KNUD (Skjold 1808 - Munich 1879)
"A Moonlight scene by a lake 1872"
Oil on canvas, 81,5 x 84cm Signed and dated lower left: "K. Baade 1872" Painted in 1872
Baade was pupil of Dahl in Dresden during the years 1836 - 39 and 1843 - 45. Several study tours to Norway and Vestlandet and Nordland. After 1845 he lived in Munich and worked as a landscape painter with great success.

*A most typical and a very good example of a work by Baade from the years in Munich. Few other artists were better able to describe a moonlight atmosphere than Baade. The painting is kept in its original frame.
#606

SINDING, OTTO LUDVIG (Kongsberg 1842 - München 1909)
"Mrs. Sinding and their son Sigmund in Kragerø 1877"
Oil on canvas, 54x44,5cm. Signed and dated lower right: "Otto Sinding 1877". Entitled in pencil on the stretcher "Sinding Kragerö" . Painted in 1877
Otto Sinding was born in a family of cultural traditions. After he had taken a degree in law, he became a pupil of P. Barlag in 1867 and J.F. Eckersberg in 1868 in Christiania. Further he studied at the academies in Karlsruhe and Munich. From 1876 to 1880 he lived in Kristiania with study tours to Italy in 1875 and 80. Sinding is one of four artists to be regarded as the painters "who discovered" Lofoten. Works by Sinding are included in most important art museums in Scandinavia and in many collections in Germany and Italy as well.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon volume III)

This extraordinary decorative work painted with an impressionistic brush, is a scene from Kragerø late summer 1877. Depicted are Sinding's wife Anna Christine (she was foster-child of Hans F. Gude and was married to Otto Sinding in 1873) and their son Sigmund who was two years old this year. Sigmund also became a painter.
Provenance: "Billede af Otto Sinding tilhörer P.B. Anker" (Old inscription on the stretcher)
The original frame, but restored.
#702

NORMANN, ADELSTEEN (Vågøya, Bodin 1848 - Kristiania 1918)
"A scene from the Sognefjord 1879"
Oil on canvas, 61 x 96,5cm Signed and dated lower right: "A. Normann Dsf 79" Painted in Düsseldorf 1879
Born at Vågøya in Bodin. In 1869 he moved to Düsseldorf and the academy (1869 - 73) and after 1887 he moved to Berlin. Almost every year he visited Norway to paint and draw sketches to use for his larger atelier works. He was a close friend of Hans Dahl and also many of Normann's paintings were bought by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Normann is together with O. Sinding, G. Berg and J. Nielssen regarded to be the painters who "discovered" Lofoten.

*A very good, colour-rich example of an early work by Adelsteen Normann.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86, volume III, "Lofotens Malere - Johan Nielssen-Otto Sinding-Adelsteen Normann-Gunnar Berg" Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum - edited by Anne Aaserud and Knut Ljøgodt, Tromsø 2004)
#602

NIELSEN, AMALDUS CLARIN (Mandal 1838 - Oslo 1932)
"Ensomt sted ved Mandal - A lonely place by Mandal"
Oil on canvas, 80x138cm. Signed and dated lower right: "Amaldus Nielsen 1885". By the artist inscribed in pencil on the stretcher: "Mandal Amaldus Nielsen Christiania" Painted in 1885
Amaldus Nielsen grew up in Mandal. He studied in Copenhagen c. 1854-56 and later in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe with Hans Gude. Early he got an reputation of being "Sørlandets Maler". Amaldus Nielsen died in 1932 and his entire atelier stock was donated to Oslo Kommune.

There are known at least three quite similar versions of "Ensomt sted" of which our example from 1885 seems to be the first dated, painted the same year as "Morgen ved Ny-Hellesund" (in Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design). One version was exhibited in "Norges Jubileumsutstilling 1914" and another example dated 1901 is in Nasjonalgalleriet. In the book "Norges Billedkunst i det nittende og tyvende århundre" page 164, we read: "Det var hos Amaldus Nielsen alltid en dragning mot den sommerlige idyll; vinteren har aldri hatt noe å si ham. Og det er først og fremst idyller som Morgen ved Ny-Hellesund (1885 i Nasjonalgalleriet) som har skapt hans popularitet. Men malerisk når han atskillig høyere i andre av galleriets bilder som det friske sjøbilde Ænes ved Hardangerjord (1886), den fine lille studien Fra Rekejord (1883) og fremfor alt det enkle, alvorlige Ensomt sted (1901) med det mørke tjernet mellom rødmende lyngkledde heier".
In excellent condition.
(Ref: Henning Alsvik og Leif Østby "Norges Billedkunst i det nittende og tyvende århundre" Oslo 1951, the variant from 1901 in Nasjonalgalleriet illustrated p. 165, The Exhibition Catalogue "1814 - 1914 Norges Kunst Jubileumsutstilling" Kristiania 1914))
#706

SØRENSEN, JØRGEN (Christiania 1861 - Askim 1894)
"An early Winter afternoon 1886"
Oil on canvas, 35 x 50cm Signed and dated lower right: "Jørgen Sörensen 86" Painted in 1886
Sørensen was pupil of A. Disen, K. Bergslien, P. Barlag, C. Krohg in Christiania and Frits Thaulow at Modum in 1883 - 84. During the winter 1889 - 90 he was in Paris at the painting school by Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. His most well known pictures are winter scenes, examples are "Februar 2o kulde" (1887) and "Vinter" (1888), both in Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo. He died only 33 years old

*The paint on the picture is thick and with a certain cracking pattern which means that it most likely was painted outdoors in the winter snow. Many of the artist's winter scenes were painted in the surrounding of Aker by Kristiania (Oslo).
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume IV)
#618

ASKEVOLD, ANDERS M. (Sunnfjord 1834 - Düsseldorf 1900)
"Rowing to the Ferry Harbour 1889"
Oil on canvas, 53,5 x 83cm Signed and dated lower right: "A: Askevold. 1889" Painted in 1889
Pupil of H.L. Reusch in Bergen 1847 - 54 und Hans Gude in Düsseldorf 1855 - 58. Later he lived in Bergen, Paris and Düsseldorf. He continued through his life to paint sceneries from Norway, mostly of the Fjords or landscapes with cows and cattles and he became a famous painter in Norway and Germany.

*The motive of the painting is probably a scene of the Hardangerfjord.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume I)
#617

GUDE, HANS FREDRIK (Christiania 1825 - Berlin 1903)
"Strandsteine 1893"
Oil on canvas, 52,6 x 89cm Signed and dated lower right: "HF Gude 1893" Inscribed on a label verso: "Serie I no. 50 Strandsteine (Sonnenglanz auf ??? Wasser) Hans Gude" A printed label: "Strandsteine 1200M" The stretcher stamped: "H. Peterssen Berlin W. Potsdamer Str 23a" Painted 1893
Hans F. Gude is one of Norway's most famous 19th century landscape painters. Already in 1837 he became a pupil of Flintoe in Christiania and his first study tours took place in 1839 and 40 to Vestlandet and Telemark. He arrived in Düsseldorf and the Academy under professor Schirmer in 1841 but continued his regular Norway study tours. He was appointed professor at the Academy of Düsseldorf in 1854 and from 1864 to 1880 he was a professor at the Academy in Karlsruhe. He then moved to Berlin and was appointed professor here from 1880 to 1901. A high number of Norwegian artists got their education through Gude and he had an important influence on many of them.

*An earlier unrecorded painting not listed in Frode Haverkamp's Magistergradsavhandling i kunsthistorie "Hans Gude 1825 - 1903". But a much smaller variant is listed no. 861 and illustrated with the title "Ved Østersjøen" and, according to Haverkamp, is verso by the artist entitled "Am Ostsee von Hans Gude". Our very fine painting is a typical example of Gude's studies in the reflex-and breaking phenomena in the sea.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume I, Frode Haverkamp "Magistergradsavhandling i kunsthistorie Hans Gude 1825 - 1903" University of Oslo 1982, "Mennesket og havet i norsk maleri - Men and the Sea in Norwegian Painting" Exhibition catalogue Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum 1981)
#614

ASKEVOLD, ANDREAS M. (Sunnfjord 1834 - Düsseldorf 1900)
"A Ferry Harbour in the Hardangerfjord 1894"
Oil on canvas, 56,5x91cm. Signed and dated lower right: "A: Askevold. 1894". Painted in 1894
Askevold was pupil of H.L. Reusch in Bergen 1847 - 54 and Hans Gude in Düsseldorf 1855 - 58. Later Askevold lived in Bergen, Paris and Düsseldorf. He continued throughout his life to paint sceneries from Norway, mostly from the Fjords or landscapes with cows and cattles. He became a famous painter especially in Norway and Germany.

A very good and representative colour rich work by the artist. In excellent condition
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume I)
#704

ASKEVOLD, ANDERS M. (Sunnfjord 1834 - Düsseldorf 1900)
"By the Ferry Harbour in the Sognerfjord 1895"
Oil on canvas, 53,5 x 83cm Signed and dated lower left: "A: Askevold. 1895" Painted in 1895
Pupil of H.L. Reusch in Bergen 1847 - 54 und Hans Gude in Düsseldorf 1855 - 58. Later he lived in Bergen, Paris and Düsseldorf. Through his life he continued to paint sceneries from Norway, mostly from the Fjords or wooden landscapes with cows and cattle and he became a famous painter in Germany and Norway.

*A very colour rich and decorative painting by Askevold. A similar motive has been seen with the title "Sognefjorden".
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume I)
#621

NORMANN, ADELSTEEN (Vågøya, Bodin 1848 - Kristiania 1918)
"The steam ship entering the Fjord"
Oil on canvas, 49 x 72 cm Signed lower left: "A. Normann" Probably painted c. 1900
Normann was born at Vågøya in Bodin. In 1869 he moved to Düsseldorf and the academy (1869 - 73) and after 1887 he moved to Berlin. Almost every year he visited Norway to paint and draw sketches to use for his larger atelier works. He was a close friend of Hans Dahl and also many of Normann's paintings were bought by Kaiser Wilhelm. Normann is together with O. Sinding, G. Berg and J. Nielssen regarded to be the painters who "discovered" Lofoten.

*A typical example of a later work by Normann executed with a more impressionist brush. A very decorative and colour-rich painting.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86, volume III, "Lofotens Malere - Johan Nielssen-Otto Sinding-Adelsteen Normann-Gunnar Berg" Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum - edited by Anne Aaserud and Knut Ljøgodt, Tromsø 2004)
#619

NORMANN, ADELSTEEN (Vågøya, Bodin 1848 - Kristiania 1918)
"The Summer Night in North Norway"
Oil on canvas, 70 x 102 cm Signed lower left: "A. Normann" Probably painted after 1900
Born at Vågøya in Bodin. In 1869 he moved to Düsseldorf and the academy (1869 - 73) and after 1887 he moved to Berlin. Almost every year he visited Norway to paint and draw sketches to use for his larger atelier works. He was a close friend of Hans Dahl and also many of Normann's paintings were bought by Kaiser Wilhelm. Normann is together with O. Sinding, G. Berg and J. Nielssen regarded to be the painters who "discovered" Lofoten.

*A fine and typical work by Normann with the atmosphere of the Midnight Sun.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86, volume III, "Lofotens Malere - Johan Nielssen-Otto Sinding-Adelsteen Normann-Gunnar Berg" Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum - edited by Anne Aaserud and Knut Ljøgodt, Tromsø 2004)
#624

WENTZEL, NILS GUSTAV (Christiania 1859 - Lillehammer 1927)
"A frozen winter river in Gudbrandsdalen"
Oil on canvas, 81 x 100cm Signed lower right: "Gustav Wentzel" Probably painted in Gudbrandsdalen after 1900
Wentzel attended the painting school belonging to Knud Bergslien 1879 - 81 and "Den Kongelige Tegneskole". Pupil of Frits Thaulow at Modum 1883 and was the next six years in Paris.

*Wentzel lived in Vågå 1902 - 04 and 1913 - 20 before he moved to Lom.
(Ref: Norsk kunstnerleksikon 1982 - 86 volume IV)
#623

THAULOW, FRITS (Christiania 1847 - Volendam, Holland 1906)
"Printemps" (Vår)
Coloured etching, 57 x 45cm Signed in pencil lower right: "Frits Thaulow". Numbered lower left and with G. Petit's blind stamp Printed c. 1903
*According to Poulsson the print is probably based on a painting from Audenarde. A most colourfull and fresh example.
(Ref: Vidar Poulsson: "Frits Thaulow 1847 - 1906, Kristianiamaler i verdensformat" Oslo u.å. - En oversikt over Thaulows raderinger, no. 17)
#628

THAULOW, FRITS (Christiania 1847 - Volendam 1906)
"Escalier de Marbre"("Marmortrappen i Venezia")
Coloured etching with handcolour, 45x57,5cm. Signed in pencil lower right: "Frits Thaulow". Numbered lower left and with G. Petit's blind stamp Printed c. 1903
From the stairs of the Church S. Maria dela Salute, Venice, visited by Thaulow in 1899.
A most excellent example in mint condition. Rarely to be seen like this.
(Ref: Vidar Poulsson: "Frits Thaulow 1847 - 1906, Kristianiamaler i verdensformat" Oslo u.å. - En oversikt over Thaulows raderinger, no. 5)
#708

THAULOW, FRITS (Christiania 1847 - Volendam 1906)
"La Sentinelle" ("Skiltvakten")
Coloured etching, 47x59cm. Signed in pencil lower right: "Frits Thaulow". Numbered lower left and with G. Petit's blind stamp. Printed c. 1903
According to Poulsson this etching could be based on a painting from Montreuil-sur-Mer 1892-94 or from Audenarde in 1901.
A most lovely example of an uncommon print.
(Ref: Vidar Poulsson: "Frits Thaulow 1847 - 1906, Kristianiamaler i verdensformat" Oslo u.å. - En oversikt over Thaulows raderinger, no. 7)
#709

THAULOW, FRITS (Christiania 1847 - Volendam 1906)
"Laveuses de Quimperlé" ("Vaskekoner i Quimperlé")
Coloured etching, 48x59,5cm. Signed in pencil lower right: "Frits Thaulow". Numbered lower left and with G. Petit's blind stamp. Printed c. 1903
According to Poulsson the print is based on a painting executed in connection with Thaulow's stay in Quimperlé in Brittany in 1901. One of the most beautiful and decorative etchings by the artist.
(Ref: Vidar Poulsson: "Frits Thaulow 1847 - 1906, Kristianiamaler i verdensformat" Oslo u.å. - En oversikt over Thaulows raderinger, no. 14)
#710

THAULOW, FRITS (Christiania 1847 - Volendam 1906)
"Dégel" ("Tøvær")
Coloured etching, 45x57cm Signed in pencil lower right: "Frits Thaulow". Numbered lower left and with G. Petit's blind stamp (this is hardly visible) Printed c. 1903
According to Poulsson the print is probably based on a painting by Thaulow showing a street scene from the Eastend of Kristiania based on his stay there in 1901.
(Ref: Vidar Poulsson: "Frits Thaulow 1847 - 1906, Kristianiamaler i verdensformat" Oslo u.å. - En oversikt over Thaulows raderinger, no. 18)
#711

GRIMELUND, JOHANNES M. (1842-1917)
"Village in Bretagne 1906"
Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm. Signed and dated lower left: "Grimelund, 1906" 1906
#145

VON ECKENBRECHER, THEMISTOKLES (1842 - 1921)
"Mitternacht am Raftsund (Lofoten)"
Oil on canvas, 47x70cm. Signed and dated lower left: "T.V. Eckenbrecher". Inscribed by the artist on the stretcher "T. v. Eckenbrecher pinx 1912 Berlin Kurfürstendamm 229" and the title "Mitternacht am Raftsund (Lofoten)" PAINTED 1912
A very fine painting with the intensiv atmosphere of the midnight sun. Eckenbrecher was German, but born in Athen. He was at the Düsseldorf Academy under O. Achenbach from 1861. Travelled to Iceland c. 1870 before he made a great tour to Norway, Spitsbergen and North-Russia in 1874. Later he visited Norway several times. The painting is in a very good condition.
(Ref: Siegfried Gehrecke "T.v. Eckenbrecher 1842 - 1921" Selbstverlag Museumsverein Goslar 1985, probably no. 106 page 73)
#590