Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1 May 1848 – 26 December 1918)
was a Norwegian painter who worked in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway.
[ Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted '']The Scream
''The Scream'' is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including ...
''.[ Normann's fjord paintings are credited with making the Norwegian fjords a more popular tourist destination.][
]
Biography
Normann was born in 1848 in Bodin in Norway. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
from 1869 to 1872 and his paintings belong to the Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Academy (now the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State ...
.[ He studied with the Estonian painter Eugen Dücker.][Adlsteen Normann]
, Burlington.co.uk, accessed April 2010 His paintings were nearly always landscapes and invariably of the fjords of Norway where he would show the water combined with small houses and boats and steep mountainsides.[
Beginning in 1883, Normann was based in Berlin.][Nineteenth-century painters and painting: a dictionary]
Volume 1977, Part 2, Geraldine Norman, p.160, accessed April 2010 In the early 1890s, Normann was doing good business selling his paintings to hotel owners. After seeing the work of his countryman Edvard Munch work when it was exhibited in Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
, Normann wrote to Munch asking if he would exhibit his work in Berlin. Munch was so overcome that he packed up his exhibition on 20 October 1892 and went to Berlin where Normann befriended him. Munch's work was placed in an exhibition which caused such a stir that the painters in Berlin split into two societies. (It was suspected that the underlying reason for Normann's invitation to Munch was to cause this split).[Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream]
Sue Prideaux, p.135-7, 2007, , accessed April 2010
Normann exhibited in Oslo,[ Berlin, London, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris.][ Although based in Germany from 1883, he would return to Norway each summer.][ Normann and ]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 Hardangerf ...
both had large ornamented wooden villas near Balestrand where they would entertain.[Nordic landscapes: region and belonging on the northern edge of Europe]
Michael Jones, Kenneth Olwig, p.392, accessed April 2010 His "dragon style" house was bought in 1891 and built (like many Norwegian houses) from a pre-fabricated kit from the city of Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
. The house stayed with his heirs until 1934.Villa Normann
nrk.no, accessed April 2010
Normann notably exhibited at the prestigious Salon de Paris
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
from as early as 1882. His paintings earned a 'Mention Honorable' in 1884 and he was awarded a bronze medal in 1889.[ It is assumed that his fjord paintings contributed to make the Norwegian fjords a popular tourist destination.]
He died in Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
(now: Oslo) on 26 December 1918, during the worldwide Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case wa ...
pandemic.
Legacy
Normann's paintings are included in galleries in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...
, Boston
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, Cincinnati
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, Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
, Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
, Leeds
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, Liverpool
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and Stockholm.[ In Normann's birthplace in 2010 is a dedicated gallery which has thirty of his paintings.][Adelsteen Gallery]
, Bodø, Norway
Selected paintings
File:Adelsteen Normann Sognefjord.jpg, ''Sognefjord
The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, en, Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords ( no, Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the smal ...
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File:Adelsteen Normann-Munken gård i Esefjorden.jpg, ''Farm at Esefjord''
File:Adelsteen Normann The Trollfjord in Lofoten & Vesterĺlen.jpg, '' Trollfjord in Lofoten
Lofoten () is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands. There are two towns, Svolvà ...
near Vesterålen
Vesterålen is a district and archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just north of Lofoten and west of Harstad. It is the northernmost part of Nordland county. Sortland is the largest town, situated near the center of the archipe ...
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References
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1848 births
1918 deaths
Norwegian landscape painters
People from Bodø
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
19th-century Norwegian painters
19th-century male artists
20th-century Norwegian painters
Deaths from Spanish flu