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The painter Hans Dahl is a landscape and genre painter from Norway. His unique talent as a painter is particularly evident in the depiction of moving water, in which he is not to be outdone. In his most famous works of art, he immortalized boats with the light across the fjord. Only a few of his paintings are pure landscapes, mostly he enlivened his paintings with large-scale genre scenes. Thus, the painter Hans Dahl had a great influence on the continuation of the Norwegian national romanticism. In 1893 Hans Dahl built a dragon-style villa on the shore of the Sognefjord in Balestrand, which became the most visited tourist destination in western Norway. Hans Dahl was highly regarded by the nobility for his conservative approach to painting and his political views. Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the painter Hans Dahl every summer in Scandinavia and made him a knight by awarding him the Norwegian Order of Saint Olav. Hans Dahl became an advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm II, especially when it came to the erection of monuments. He received so much appreciation from the emperor as a painter that Wilhelm II even took a painting by Hans Dahl with him into exile in Doorn.
Hans Dahl was the son of an infantry captain and began drawing ethnological motifs in his youth. He first followed in his father's footsteps and became an officer in the Swedish army. However, Hans Dahl only rose to the rank of second lieutenant, for even during his time at the military academy he was primarily engaged in artistic studies with painters such as Knud Bergslien or studied with Julius Middelthun at the Royal Norwegian Drawing School. He soon left the military to be taught by well-known landscape painters at the art academies in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf in Germany. Hans Dahl's younger brother also attended the art academy in Düsseldorf.
The painter Hans Dahl changed his range of subjects as he grew older and later painted mainly peasant girls on a sunny fjord. This type of painting was popular with German tourists, but was ridiculed and disowned by his fellow artists. In addition, Hans Dahl refused to follow the change from Romanticism to Modernism and was also strongly criticized by other artists in this respect. The painter Hans Dahl fought back in his own way and did so in the form of self-published pamphlets, produced artworks such as "The Painters and the Public" and sent them to the Oslo Art Gallery for purchase. The National Gallery rejected the paintings and since 1998 the Oslo National Gallery has not exhibited any of Hans Dahl's paintings, whereas on the open art market in Norway and Germany his paintings fetch enormous prices. Hans Dahl always stood up for the Germans despite the deployment of warships for training purposes in the fjords and pointed out that German tourists invested a lot of money in Norway's economy.
The painter Hans Dahl is a landscape and genre painter from Norway. His unique talent as a painter is particularly evident in the depiction of moving water, in which he is not to be outdone. In his most famous works of art, he immortalized boats with the light across the fjord. Only a few of his paintings are pure landscapes, mostly he enlivened his paintings with large-scale genre scenes. Thus, the painter Hans Dahl had a great influence on the continuation of the Norwegian national romanticism. In 1893 Hans Dahl built a dragon-style villa on the shore of the Sognefjord in Balestrand, which became the most visited tourist destination in western Norway. Hans Dahl was highly regarded by the nobility for his conservative approach to painting and his political views. Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the painter Hans Dahl every summer in Scandinavia and made him a knight by awarding him the Norwegian Order of Saint Olav. Hans Dahl became an advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm II, especially when it came to the erection of monuments. He received so much appreciation from the emperor as a painter that Wilhelm II even took a painting by Hans Dahl with him into exile in Doorn.
Hans Dahl was the son of an infantry captain and began drawing ethnological motifs in his youth. He first followed in his father's footsteps and became an officer in the Swedish army. However, Hans Dahl only rose to the rank of second lieutenant, for even during his time at the military academy he was primarily engaged in artistic studies with painters such as Knud Bergslien or studied with Julius Middelthun at the Royal Norwegian Drawing School. He soon left the military to be taught by well-known landscape painters at the art academies in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf in Germany. Hans Dahl's younger brother also attended the art academy in Düsseldorf.
The painter Hans Dahl changed his range of subjects as he grew older and later painted mainly peasant girls on a sunny fjord. This type of painting was popular with German tourists, but was ridiculed and disowned by his fellow artists. In addition, Hans Dahl refused to follow the change from Romanticism to Modernism and was also strongly criticized by other artists in this respect. The painter Hans Dahl fought back in his own way and did so in the form of self-published pamphlets, produced artworks such as "The Painters and the Public" and sent them to the Oslo Art Gallery for purchase. The National Gallery rejected the paintings and since 1998 the Oslo National Gallery has not exhibited any of Hans Dahl's paintings, whereas on the open art market in Norway and Germany his paintings fetch enormous prices. Hans Dahl always stood up for the Germans despite the deployment of warships for training purposes in the fjords and pointed out that German tourists invested a lot of money in Norway's economy.