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painted in all its breadth and shades, the light streaming in through
the low window in a brightly-coloured peasant’s cottage, flooding
the surface of a table, glancing on a face, lighting up a red shirt,
or sinking into richly-coloured shadows. As a colourist, she
surpasses most of her naturalistic fellow-artists; she is stronger than
Thaulow, more refined than Krohg.
All these artists have stood close together round the banner
of naturalism. Theodor Kittelsen (born 1857), on the other
hand, has gone his own strange way. As early as the seventies,
he had painted in Munich the clever picture «Streiken» (the Strike),
and since that time he has now and then painted a picture; but
he has never really felt at home in oil-painting. He is of a twofold
nature; he is a humorist and a lyric poet, a visionary and a poetic
genius. His series of drawings of the Homeric «Batrachomyomachia»
is a masterpiece of satirical animal humour. Racy humour
characterises his illustrations of Wessel’s «Hundemordet», and his
drawings «Fra livet i de smaa forhold» (From Life in Small
Circumstances). But it is in the illustrations of Norwegian fairy-tales
that we first learn to know Kittelsen’s imaginative art to the full
— «Nøkken» (Water-sprite), «Heksen» (Witch), etc. During a couple
of years’ stay on a barren Lofoten island, his highly-tuned natural
fancies, «Fra Lofoten», came into existence; and the most mature
fruit of Kittelsen’s talent originates from his native place —
«Jomfrulandsserien», a series of landscape effects whose charm lies
in their original feeling, and the simple grace of their execution.
Among the painters who began in Munich must further be
named the clever draughtsman and cultivated artist, Bernt Grønvold
(born 1859); the animal-painters, Carl Uchermann (born 1855) — of
whose pictures we will mention «Flamsk hundeforspand» (A Flemish
Dog-Team) — and Elisabeth Sinding (born 1846); Olav Rusten
(born 1850), influenced by the old German portrait-painting; the
figure-painters, Jahn Ekenæs (born 1847) and C. Frithjov Smith
(born 1859), professor in Weimar; Asta Nørregaard (born 1853),
portrait-painter; Wilhelm Holter (born 1842), portrait and genre
painter, who has been director of the art and handicrafts school
in Kristiania since 1884; Nils Bergslien (born 1853), who has
painted scenes from Norwegian peasant-life; the landscape painters,
Philip Baklag (born 1840) and Carl Nielsen (born 1848), Georg
Strømdahl (born 1856); and the marine painter, Carl Wilhelm
Barth (born 1847).
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