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Eilert Adelsteen Normann

Eilert Adelsteen Normann - HISTORY

A magnanimous and perceptive soul

Change arrived with the northerner, Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1848–1918), from Bodin.

Eilert Adelsteen NormannEilert Adelsteen Normann studied in Düsseldorf, and even though he was not taught by Hans Gude, but by the more modern Eugène Dücker from Estonia, he did follow the more or less theatrical standpoint that was preferred in Düsseldorf. This is evident in his painting “From Lauksund, Raftsundet” (1887). To be sure, the tall mountains do indeed tower in the background, but focus is primarily on the reflection of the sky in the water and the boats on the fjord.

Adelsteen Normann was a magnanimous and perceptive soul who encouraged talented northerners to study abroad. One of them was his cousin, Ole Juul.

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OUR ARTISTS

Meet the artist at the heart of Galleri Lofoten’s collection, from the painters of Norway’s Golden
Age to some of the country’s leading contemporary artists.

Nico Widerberg

Sculptor and painter of monumental human figures.

Ørnulf Opdahl

Landscape painter of exceptional stillness and scale.

Frans Widerberg

One of Norway’s most celebrated twentieth-century painters.

Ole Juul

A North Norwegian painter whose coastal scenes reward patient looking.

Ole Ertzeid

Four decades painting light, dark and the landscape between.

Johannes Von Ditten

A Norwegian landscape painter of western and northern Norway.

Hans Johan Fr. Berg

A Norwegian portrait painter and copyist of the great masters.

Jonny Andvik

One of Norway’s leading figurative artists
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