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PAINTING
The Norwegian school of painting is the youngest in Europe.
It belongs to the 19th century, and has no true roots in
earlier ages. There have, it is true, been painters of Norwegian
nationality before that time, such as the peasant sculptor and
painter, Magnus Berg (died 1739), and pictorial works of ancient
date exist, which may be said with certainty or probability to have
been executed in Norway. But these scattered, for the most part
church, pictures from former times, are so few in number, and so
varied in style, that it is impossible to form from them any
conception of an independent Norwegian school of painting, or of
artistic tradition in Norway.
It was only after the dissolution of the union with Denmark that
in the domain of art also, the nation awoke to consciousness, and
began to assert its independence, and in less than twenty years from
that time, a little flock of painters might be named, who, in popular
opinion, stood out clearly as a true Norwegian school of painting.
At that time there was no advanced school for artists in
Norway, and for that matter, it may be said that there is still
none, as a public special school for artists is a dream of the
future, awaiting realisation. Nearly all the Norwegian painters,
therefore, were obliged to go for their training to the art academy
in Copenhagen; and circumstances also compelled them to work
principally for a foreign public. But they painted their own
country, and most of them kept up a fruitful connection with it
by frequent journeys thither.
The founder and leader of this school of painting was himself a
pronounced Norwegian artist-personality, and was keenly conscious of this.
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