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Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway

Johan Christian Clausen DahlLinkedCulture matchlcp-5e2bba351120

Date: 1848
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: Norway
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 359246

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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. 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.

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Credit line: Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
Provenance: 1848: Sachsischer Kunstverein Dresden, Germany, acquired from the artist, December 7, 1848 | by 1920: Private Collection, by descent until 2010 | 2010: (Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom, auction sale, June 2, 2010, lot 212, sold to Asbjorn Lunde) | 2010-: Asbjorn Lunde [1927-2017], New York, NY | 2019: (Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandels GmbH, Muhich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2019-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH