Johan Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl ( born February 24, 1788 in Bergen, † October 14, 1857 in Dresden, often referred to as IC Dahl or JC Dahl ) was a Norwegian landscape painter of the Romantic period. He lived and worked in Dresden.
Life
Dahl graduated from 1803 to 1809 a decoration teaching in Bergen. In 1811 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, where he studied with Christian August Lorentzen, Nicolaj Dajon and Georg Haas, and came in 1818 to Dresden, where he became a member in 1820 and 1824 Professor of Art Academy of Dresden. From here, he traveled through the Alps regions of Germany, visited Italy twice and returned back to his Nordic homeland. In 1820 he moved to Naples and painted there, among others, Franz Ludwig Catel with. During a stay in Rome he joined the circle around Bertel Thorvaldsen and returned in the same year returned to Dresden. In 1847 stays followed in Paris and Brussels.
Diligent study of nature led him to a strange realistic direction, but lacked the consummate art. Two large paintings from the characterful nature of his homeland provide the overthrow of the Tinterrare in Upper Telle brands and a gorge with a waterfall on the coast of Bergen dar.
He also wrote a work on the Nordic wood architecture, titled " Monuments of a highly trained wooden architecture from the earliest centuries into the inner landscapes of Norway " (Dresden 1837). So he made, for example, that the demolition planned church of the Norwegian town of Vang - the Wang Church - was bought by the Prussian King and rebuilt in Lower Silesia Karpacz in the Karkonosze Mountains.
Dahl died on October 14, 1857 and was buried in the cemetery Elias in Dresden. On May 29, 1934 his remains were transferred to his native mountains.
Selections
Student
- Ernst Helbig
- Christian Friedrich Gille
- Julius von Leypold
- Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
- Carl Christian Sparmann (1805-1864)
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener (1812-1879)
- Albert Emil Kirchner (1813-1885)