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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Johan Christian Dahl
1788–1857 · Norwegian
- Born
- 1788 · Bergen
- Died
- 1857 · Dresden
80 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Johan Christian Dahl was a Norwegian artist considered the first great romantic painter in Norway and the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. He is also described as "the father of Norwegian landscape painting" and the first Norwegian painter to achieve significant international renown.
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Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 1788 – 14 October 1857), 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 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. Although Dahl spent much of his life outside of Norway, his love for his country is clear in the motifs he chose for his paintings and in his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Norwegian culture generally. He was, for example, a key figure in the founding of the Norwegian National Gallery and of several other major art institutions in Norway, as well as in the preservation of Norwegian stave churches and the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim and Bergenhus Fortress in Bergen.
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Johan Christian Dahl
Selected from 80 works by Johan Christian Dahl in the Collect24 Registry.
Johan Christian Dahl
The River Elbe in Moonlight, 1833
Brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolour, over graphite and black chalk
15.2 × 20.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-469393
Johan Christian Dahl
A man holding an oar (study for the painting "Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight"), 1846
Graphite and gray wash on wove paper
22.8 × 26.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-465938
Johan Christian Dahl
The Fort near Fredriksvern (now Stavern), 1834
oil paint
16.5 × 19 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449619
Johan Christian Dahl
Forest Scene near Engelholm, 1814
oil paint
76.5 × 88.5 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449479
Johan Christian Dahl
Danish Winter Landscape with Dolmen, 1838
oil paint
38 × 50 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449482
Johan Christian Dahl
The Big Inn at Fredensborg, 1817
oil paint
62 × 76 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449480
Johan Christian Dahl
Nordic Landscape with a Wooden Bridge, 1813
oil paint
19 × 21 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449483
Johan Christian Dahl
Mountainous landscape with waterfall, after Jacob van Ruisdael, 1812
oil paint
101 × 87.5 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449478
Johan Christian Dahl
Princess Caroline Amalie of Denmark, 1820
paper
23.5 × 17 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449388
Johan Christian Dahl
Landscape with a Rainbow, 1819
oil paint
35 × 53.5 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449385
Johan Christian Dahl
Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore, 1819
Etching
11.5 × 15 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-345720
Johan Christian Dahl
Forest Path near Meissen, 1828
oil paint
32.5 × 21 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
C24-449571
Museums and collections
Where works by Johan Christian Dahl are registered
- National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Norway
57 works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
13 works
- Nationalmuseum Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
4 works
- Munich Central Collecting Point
allied-occupied Germany
3 works
- National Gallery
United Kingdom
1 work
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
- Nationalmuseum
Sweden
1 work
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