Johan Christian Dahl - View to Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana - fine art print

About the art print "View to Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana"

the male Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl painted this work of art called View to Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana. The original was made with the size: Height: 20 cm (7,8 ″); Width: 30 cm (11,8 ″). It is included in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm's collection located in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden. With courtesy of - Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons (licensed: public domain).: . Furthermore, alignment is in landscape format with an aspect ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter Johan Christian Dahl was a European artist, whose artistic style can be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist painter lived for 69 years - born in the year 1788 in Bergen and passed away in 1857.

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English: New Acquisition, April 2015: View of Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana by Johan Christian Dahl Nationalmuseum has acquired View of Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana, one of the few Italian landscapes by Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) still in private hands. Although Dahl lived in Dresden for almost his entire professional life he is called the father of Norwegian landscape painting. The artist is best known for his landscapes from his native Norway, but his outdoor scenes from Italy have also attracted great interest among museums and collectors. It is primarily drawings and smaller paintings in oil and they tell us a lot about what he saw and how he travelled. The newly acquired painting is an important document from a particularly significant period in Dahl’s life. Imagine it is August 1820. You have been travelling for two months. By horse and cart, by boat, and on foot. The journey has been hazardous and exhausting. A few days ago, you arrived at one of your main destinations: the Bay of Naples, with famous sights such as Vesuvius, Capri, and Naples itself. You have spent the past few days quietly relaxing as a newly arrived guest in a big house on the hillside overlooking the town of Castellammare. Your first impressions of the place are so powerful that you never want to forget them. You want to be able to conjure them up and relive them later in life. This is the feeling that Johan Christian Dahl’s painting of the view from the roof terrace of the Villa Quisisana seems to exude. Dahl arrived at the villa on 11 August 1820 as a guest of Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark. The scene from the terrace is dated five days later. Dahl spent the intervening period in the palatial villa socializing with the art-loving prince and his court and painting the view. Dahl’s painting is special in several respects. It is too small, and too sketch-like in its execution, to have been intended for sale. However, the foreground with the wall makes this little painting seem too carefully finished to be regarded as a mere study. The most likely explanation is that Dahl intended to create a personal souvenir of his visit. What makes the motif special is firstly the dramatic effect of the erupting Vesuvius, and secondly the strong emphasis on the foreground with its wall. Without the latter, the painting could be seen purely as a study, in which the artist’s main focus was on capturing the twilight and the atmosphere. But such clear identification of the viewpoint is extremely rare in sketches. The Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius was certainly a popular motif, but Dahl’s precise dating of the work, 16 August 1820, makes the image seem more like a journal entry. The compact format, 20 x 30 cm, somewhat paradoxically reinforces the overpowering nature of Dahl’s personal experience of the beautiful view in the evening light, with the menacing volcanic activity in the background. Nationalmuseum’s purchase of this work has been made possible by a generous bequest from the Wiros Fund. Nationalmuseum has no budget of its own for new acquisitions, but relies on gifting and financial support from private funds and foundations to enhance its collections of fine art and craft. Inventory number: NM 7287 Målningen föreställer vyn från Villa Quisisana i riktning mot Vesuvius. Månadens nyförvärv, April 2015 Utsikt mot Vesuvius från Villa Quisisana av Johan Christian Dahl Nationalmuseum har förvärvat ett av de fåtal italienska landskap som fortfarande finns i privat ägo av den norskfödde målaren Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857) – Utsikt mot Vesuvius från Villa Quisisana. Trots att Dahl under i stort sett hela sitt yrkesliv var bosatt i Dresden kallas han för den norska målarkonstens fader. Konstnären är mest känd för sina landskap från Norge, men vid sidan av dem har hans friluftsstudier från Italien fått stor uppmärksamhet. Det rör sig i första hand om teckningar och om mindre bilder i olja, som berättar mycket om vad han såg och hur han reste. Den nyförvärvade målningen kan betraktas som ett viktigt dokument från en särskilt betydelsefull etapp i Dahls liv. Föreställ dig att det är augusti år 1820. Du har rest i två månader. Färdats med häst och vagn, med båt och till fots. Resan har varit riskabel och slitsam. För några dagar sedan nådde du ett av dina viktigaste delmål – Neapelbukten med sevärdheter som Vesuvius, Neapel och Capri. De senaste dagarna har du tillbringat i lugn och ro som nyanländ gäst i ett stort hus i sluttningen ovanför staden Castellammare. Intrycken är så starka att du aldrig vill riskera att glömma dem. Du vill kunna frammana och återuppleva dem längre fram i livet. Målningen av Johan Christian Dahl från takterrassen till lantresidenset Quisisana tycks förmedla just denna känsla. Dahl befann sig på Quisisana, som den danske kronprinsens Christian Frederik gäst sedan den 11 augusti. Vyn från terrassen är daterad fem dagar senare. Under de här dagarna vistades han i den palatsliknande villan för att umgås med den konstintresserade prinsen och hans hov samt för att måla utsikten. Dahls målning är speciell på flera sätt. Den är för liten och för skissmässigt utförd för att ha varit avsedd att säljas. Samtidigt får förgrunden med muren denna lilla målning att framstå alltför genomarbetad för att betraktas som en ren studie. Det mest sannolika är att Dahls avsikt var att skapa sig ett eget, personligt resminne. Motivet är speciellt dels genom den dramatiska effekten med Vesuvius i utbrott, dels genom den starka betoningen av förgrunden med sin mur. Utan den vore målningen att betrakta som en ren studie där konstnären i första hand koncentrerat sig på att fånga skymningsljuset och atmosfären. Att på detta sätt tydligt markera själva utsiktspunkten förekommer däremot ytterst sällan. Neapelbukten med Vesuvius var visserligen ett populärt motiv, men Dahls noggranna angivelse av tidpunkten, den 16 augusti 1820 gör att bilden får karaktär av en dagboksanteckning. Det intima formatet 20 x 30 cm förstärker paradoxalt nog den överväldigande känslan i Dahls egen upplevelse av den sköna vyn i kvällsljus med vulkanens hotfulla aktivitet som fond. Förvärvet har möjliggjorts genom donationsmedel ur Wirosfonden. Nationalmuseum har inga egna medel att förvärva konst och konsthantverk för utan samlingarna berikas genom gåvor och privata stiftelse- och fondmedel. Inventarienummer: NM 7287

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