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Dahl (surname)
Dahl or Dahle is a surname of Germanic origin. Dahl, which means valley in the North Germanic languages (''tal'' in German, ''dale'' in northern England English), is common in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. The origin of the German forms Dahl and Dahle may have been in medieval Westphalia. In Germany about 11 places are called Dahl. In the Netherlands, a suburb of the city of Nijmegen (which in turn is named after an old estate in the area) is called "Heyerdaal" (also spelled as "Heijerdaal"), in which "daal" also means "valley". Other examples are "Bloemendaal," "Rozendaal," and "Roosendaal." There are several variations as it was common to add a suffix to Dahl in order to denote the name bearer's original locale or occupation. You also find several variations of -dahl used with prefixes ( Heyerdahl, Heimendahl...).Axel Gröblinghoff: Großhau - Von altem Eisen und Wäldern bis zum Horizont, Germany 1995 Dahl Arts and media * Arlene Dahl (1925–2021) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahlen (surname)
Dahlen is a Low German surname variation of Dahl originating in medieval Westphalia. Dahlen is also a common Scandinavian surname. The Swedish language spelling replaces the ''e'' with '' é'', indicator of an integrated loan word. Dahlen is uncommon as a given name. Notable people with the surname include: * Andreas Dahlén (born 1982), Swedish footballer *Bill Dahlen (1870–1950), American baseball player * Carl Dahlén (1770–1851), Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer * Jonathan Dahlen (born 1997), Swedish ice hockey player *Neal Dahlen (born 1940), American football manager *Ulf Dahlén (born 1967), Swedish ice hockey player *Hermann, Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg Freiherr Dahlen-Orlaburg (10 January 1828, in Košice, Kaschau – 15 November 1887, in Vienna) was an Austrian Administrator of the Government, administrator. He was the Austrian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1881 to 1882. 182 ... (1828–1887), Austrian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene Dahl
Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925 – November 29, 2021) was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Classical Hollywood cinema era. She was also an author and entrepreneur. She founded two companies, Arlene Dahl Enterprises and Dahlia, a fragrance company. Dahl had three children, the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas. Biography Early life Dahl was born on August 11, 1925, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Idelle () and Rudolph Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive. Her parents were both of Norwegian descent. She cited her year of birth as 1928, although her birth record (1925-43442), available through the Minnesota Historical Society, shows she was born on August 11, 1925. An August 13, 2014, article in the ''New York Social Diary'' by David Patrick Columbia, titled "Losses and Gains", references her 89th birthday celebration with her husband, children, and family. As a child, Dahl took elocution and danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish-Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and, by some, one of the greatest European artists of all time. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingolf Dahl
Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Biography Dahl was born Walter Ingolf Marcus in Hamburg, Germany, to a German Jewish father, attorney Paul Marcus, and his Swedish wife Hilda Maria Dahl. He had two brothers, Gert Marcus (1914–2008; a noted Swedish artist and sculptor, and a recipient of the Prince Eugen Medal), and Holger, and one sister Anna-Britta. In Hamburg, Dahl studied piano under Edith Weiss-Mann, a harpsichordist, pianist, and a proponent of early music. Dahl studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (1930–32). Dahl left Germany as the Nazi Party was coming to power and continued his studies at the University of Zurich, along with Volkmar Andreae and . Living with relatives and working at the Zürich Opera for more than six years, he rose from an internship to the rank of assistant conductor. He served as a vocal coach and chorus master for the world premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjalmar Dahl
Hjalmar Karl Emil Dahl (15 May 1891 – 19 October 1960) was a Finnish-Swedish journalist, translator and author.Wikiaineisto: Kuka kukin oli 1961 (in Finnish) Biography Hjalmar Dahl was born in to pharmacist Johan Dahl (1861–1908) and Betty Kiljander (1865–1927). After graduating in in 1910, he moved to the , where he graduated in 1913. After returning to Finla ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Dahl
Hans Dahl (19 February 1849 – 27 July 1937) was a Norwegian painter. Hans Dahl was most known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes. Background Hans Dahl was born in the village of Granvin, on the Hardangerfjord in Hordaland, 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 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 Dahl had his first exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Dahl
Frans Gustaf Abraham Dahl (13 February 1835 – 21 September 1927) was a Swedish architect. He is known for designing several of Sweden's prominent buildings, including Stockholm's National Library of Sweden and Mariahissen. He also designed Norrby Church in Sala Municipality. Personal life Dahl had two known children: fellow architect Theodor Dahl and Elsa Åkerhielm. He also had an illegitimate daughter, Tora Armida Dahl, with bakery assistant Emma Nilsdotter. Dahl was a cousin of composer Viking Dahl. Death Dahl died in 1927, aged 92. He was interred in Norra begravningsplatsen Norra begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Cemetery" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of the Stockholm urban area, located in Solna Municipality. Inaugurated on 9 June 1827, it is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables. Nota .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Gustaf 1835 births 1927 deaths 19th-century Swedish architects 20th-century Swedish architects Archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Dahl
Felicity Ann Dahl ( D'Abreu; born 12 December 1938) is a British film producer who married the author Roald Dahl in 1983. She was previously married to Charles Reginald Hugh Crosland. The quietly spoken Dahl gave a rare interview in November 2008 to publicise the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize and reflect on her years with the late author. Early life In December 1938, Felicity D'Abreu was born in Llandaff, a district in the north of Cardiff, in Wales. It was coincidentally the birthplace of her future husband Roald Dahl in 1916. She was the daughter of Pr. Alphonsus D'Abreu (surname), Abreu and Elizabeth Throckmorton (granddaughter of Throckmorton baronets, Sir Richard Charles Acton Throckmorton, 10th Baronet) and the niece of Lt.-Col. Francis D'Abreu who was married to Margaret Bowes-Lyon, the first cousin of the Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother. Career Film production Dahl served as producer of the 1996 film Matilda (1996 film), ''Matilda'' and was executive producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Dahl
Elena Pavlovna Dahl (née Kornilova; born 10 February 1947 in Saint Petersburg, Russia; then Leningrad, USSR), is a Russian-Swedish author and translator. She is married to the Swedish linguist Östen Dahl. She came to Sweden in 1968, where she studied literature, philosophy, and language at the University of Gothenburg. She worked as a teacher in Russia and as a freelance journalist for Radio Sweden before moving to Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ... and working as a librarian and a translator, while also writing poetry. She published her first work, ''Three Russian Poets in Stockholm'', in 1996. She has translated several works from Russian, including some writings by Boris Aranovich. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Elena 1947 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Dahl
Cecilie Dahl is an artist currently living and working in New York City and in Oslo, Norway. He was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1960. She grew up in Oslo and Accra, the capital city of Ghana. She has an M.A. in Fine Art from The Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, and a diploma in Architectural Art and Design from Bournemouth and Poole College of Art in the United Kingdom. She has work in collections across Europe and in America. Malmö Konsthall in Sweden holds 25 of her works. Her works are part of the Elisabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art collection, which is affiliated with the Brooklyn Museum. Dahl participated in the National and International Studio Program of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1993–1994. In 2007 Dahl had a solo exhibition, ''Cruising Paradise'', at Nortälje Konsthall in Sweden, and took part in the group exhibition ''I Love Malmö'' at the Turku Art Museum Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a List of cities and towns in Finland, city and former Capital ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Dahl (1858)
Cecilie Dahl (1858–1943) was a Norwegian artist who painted portraits, genre paintings and landscapes. From the early 1880s, she exhibited at the Oslo Kunstforening and in 1888 presented a work inspired by Henrik Ibsen's ''Brand'' at the Nordic Exhibition in Copenhagen. Her best works are those of women and children from the mid-1890s, characterized by a soft, rather melancholy atmosphere. She was inspired by evening scenes, as in ''Augustkveld, Hakadal'' in the collection of the Norwegian National Gallery. Early life and education Born in the Vestre Akter district of Oslo (then known as Kristiania) on 26 March 1858, Cecilie Dahl was the daughter of the physician Ludvig Wilhelm Dahl (1826–1890) and Anna Cathrine Lyders née Bonnevie (1835–1893). The second of 11 children, her siblings included Nils Alstrup Dahl (1876–1940) and Ingerid Dahl (1861–1944) who both also became painters. After studying under Amaldus Nielsen at Knud Bergslien's art school in 1880, she was trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Dahl
Carina Dahl (born 15 August 1985) is a Norwegian pop singer. Biography Dahl participated in Big Brother 2006, a joint program shared by broadcasters in Sweden and Norway. She was the last housemate to be voted off before the finale, spending a total of 107 days in the house. Dahl has for many years worked as a glamour model and was voted "Årets gatebilbabe" in 2005 in Norway. She has established herself in Norway as a singer, with the label Stargate producing several of her songs, and has performed at events including the Norway Rock Festival. She reached the first semi-final of the Melodi Grand Prix 2011, the competition to select an act to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany, with a song titled "Guns & Boys", but failed to progress further in the contest. Dahl lived in Sweden for five years, where she worked with the record company TMC Entertainment, and in 2010 she released her first album ''Hot Child''. She moved back to Norway in 2012, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
