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Anders Guttormsen Wigdahl (born May 10, 1830 in Vigdalen, Luster , Norway ; † August 31, 1914 in Bergen , Norway) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Wigdahl started earning a living when he was 15. In the winter of 1850/1851 he moved to Bergen and became a soldier. From 1857 to 1867 he was a non-commissioned officer in the Bergen battalion. From 1872 to 1873 he attended the public drawing school in Bergen under J. Meyer and H. Bücker. He then became a student of the painters Johan Ludvig Losting (1810–1876) and Anders Askevold . He also helped the latter in selling landscape paintings to English tourists. In 1874, Wigdahl followed Askevold's advice and went to Düsseldorf to learn academic painting. There he became a private student of the Norwegian landscape painter Georg Anton Rasmussen , who had also been a student of Losting and Askevold. He lived in Düsseldorf until 1879, interrupted by several summer study trips to Norway. Then he returned to Bergen, where he lived and worked as a landscape painter until his death. Between 1872 and 1888 his landscapes were shown at various exhibitions, including at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 . Since his painting was viewed as stiff and old-fashioned around the turn of the century, his economic situation was difficult in old age.
Works (selection)
- Norwegian mountain landscape with farmhouses by the lake , 1876
- Holsendel in September , 1878
- Brusende elv , 1884
- View of Bergen (Norway) , 1886
- Fra Frosnæs, Opstryn , 1895
- Norsk landskab, motif from Jostedalen , 1913
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Volume XXXV (1942), p. 549
- Wigdahl, Anders Guttormsen. In: Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff , Eberhard König: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1992 ff.
- Johan Bøgh: Bergens Kunstforening i femti Aar . Bergen 1888, pp. 38, 119 f.
- Jens Thiis: Norske malere og billedhuggere. En Fremdstilling af norske billedkunsts historie i det nittende århundrete med oversiger over velvet foreignmed art . John Grieg, Bergen 1907, Volume 2, p. 331
Web links
- Anders Guttormsen Wigdahl , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Lau Albrektsen: Anders Guttormsen Wigdahl , biography in the portal nkl.snl.no ( Norsk kunstnerleksikon )
- Anders Guttormsen Wigdahl , data sheet and catalog raisonné in the marcus.uib.no portal(Bergen University Library, Norway)
- Anders Guttormsen Wigdahl , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 442
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wigdahl, Anders Guttormsen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vigdalen, Luster , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1914 |
| Place of death | Bergen , Norway |