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Wilhelm Schiertz

Wilhelm Schiertz - HISTORY

Franz Wilhelm Schiertz, born in Leipzig, was a German-Norwegian painter and architect. He studied under the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Klausson Dahl (1788–1857) in Dresden, specializing in landscape painting.

In 1836 he traveled to Norway to make architectural drawings of the stave churches in Borgund, Heddal and Urnes, which were later published in Dahl’s book on Norwegian wooden architecture in 1837.

Schiertz’s paintings first depicted idealized and meaningful landscapes, influenced by artists such as Dahl and Peder Balke. However, he did not follow a realist style like some of his contemporaries. As a result, his work gradually fell into oblivion over time.

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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.

Einar Berger

A self-taught painter who earned his place in the salons of Berlin, Paris and New York.

Even Ulving

A Norwegian painter who travelled the world and kept coming back to Lofoten.

Frans Widerberg

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

Gunnar Berg

A short life devoted to Lofoten.

Ørnulf Opdahl

Landscape painter of exceptional stillness and scale.

Wilhelm Schiertz

A German-Norwegian painter drawn to Norway by its architecture and its landscapes.

Otto Sinding

The working life of Lofoten, painted large.

Eilert Adelsteen Normann

Lofoten on a grand, international scale.
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