Harald Dal (June 26, 1902 – June 4, 1972) was a

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painter. After a lengthy education both in Norway and abroad, he debuted as a painter at an exhibition in

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's Kunstnerforbundet art gallery in 1927. Dal was born in

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. He was especially active as a landscape painter and portrait painter. He received a number of grants and awards, and made a number of international trips to develop as an artist. He worked slowly and methodically, and has therefore left a limited artistic production. He had a close friendship and collaboration with

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and her circle, and was one of the artists that decorated Stein School in

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, which is now a museum. Among other things, he painted a scene from the old Norse

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s in the hall at the school. The painting ''De eligerede mænd'' (The Elected Men) is considered Dal's chief work. The painting was created between 1949 and 1957 for display in

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, and it depicts the twelve men that constituted the first council of Christiania (now Oslo). The artist's last major assignment was created for the

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in Oslo between 1955 and 1960, and it depicts

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taking his oath as king. In 1975, the author and art historian

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published a volume about Harald Dal in the book series ''Kunst og Kultur'' (Art and Culture).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dal, Harald 1902 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Artists from Trondheim 20th-century Norwegian male artists