Norway / 1848
Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway as painting (Norway · 1848).
Set against a magnificent mountain cliff, the waterfall empties into a broad fjord that stretches nearly 70 miles before reaching the ocean just north of Dahl’s hometown of Bergen.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as Oil on canvas and credits Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857).
The museum's collection notes: Johan Christian Dahl painted this dramatic view of the Feige Waterfall at Lysterfjord, one of the most spectacular natural wonders in his homeland, at time a when Norwegians were trying to foster awareness of their identity as a distinct national culture. Dahl’s views of Norway played a crucial role in establishing his reputation as the leading Norwegian artist of the period and one of most important landscape painters of the Romantic era.
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