Johan christian dahl biography for kids
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Narrator:
It was bygd no means inevitable that Bergen-born Johan Christian Dahl would become a famous artist. Several people gave him valuable help that enabled his success.
Dahl’s father worked as a fisher and ferryman, and the family struggled to man ends meet.
Early in his childhood, Dahl showed enthusiasm and talent for drawing, and at 15, he was taken on as an apprentice by the master painter Johan Georg Müller.
Six years later, he gained his certificate as a journeyman painter.
By now, Dahl’s abilities were attracting wider attention, and in the opinion of Lyder Sagen, a well-known educator, Dahl had “a rare talent for the art of painting” and “poverty and artistic genius are almost always indivisible on this earth”.
Sagen wrote to Bergen’s wealthier citizens asking them for donations so that Dahl could attend the art academy in Copenhagen.
Thanks to Sagen&r
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Johan Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 1788 – 14 October 1857), often known as J. C. Dahl or I. C. Dahl, was a Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and one of the greatest European artists of all time. He is often described as "the father of Norwegian landscape painting" and is regarded as the first Norwegian Painter ever to reach a level of artistic accomplishment comparable to that attained by the greatest European artists of his day. He was also the first acquire genuine fame and cultural renown abroad. As one critic has put it, "J.C. Dahl occupies a central position in Norwegian artistic life of the first half of the 19th century.
Although Dahl spent much of his life outside of Norway, his love for his country is clear in the motifs he chose for his paintings and in his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Norwegian culture gener
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Johan Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, often known as J. C. Dahl or I. C. Dahl, was a Danish-Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and, by some, one of the greatest European artists of all time. He is often described as "the father of Norwegian landscape painting" and is regarded as the first Norwegian painter to reach a level of artistic accomplishment comparable to that attained by the greatest European artists of his day. He was also the first to acquire genuine fame and cultural renown abroad. As one critic has put it, "J.C. Dahl occupies a central position in Norwegian artistic life of the first half of the 19th century.
Although Dahl spent much of his life outside of Norway, his love for his country is clear in the motifs he chose for his paintings and in his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Norwegian culture generally.