DOI Heft:
No. 380 (November 1924)
DOI Artikel:Peters, Wilhelm: A Norwegian painter of the early nineteenth century: Influenced by Turner
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0272
A NORWEGIAN PAINTER
"FROM VARDOHUS "
BY PEDER BALKE
Norwegian sketches. But, alas ! the Revo- mand, Gude and Cappelen, the naive inter-
lution of '48 came, and Louis Philippe had preter of the north was as nothing. a
to escape to England, so this commission He became a hermit, but his energetic
was never executed. From Paris, Balke nature turned to other activities. By his
went over to London, and lived there for travels in Europe during a time when so
a couple of years, obviously finding inspira- many new ideas were being discussed he
tion in the work of Turner. a a had gained a new insight into the needy
The subjects he mostly painted were conditions of the poor ; so, about the year
from his sketches in the north of Norway, 1850, he sent into the " Storthing " (the
with effects of the midnight sun and the Norwegian Parliament) a proposal for a
aurora borealis. The North Cape was " Workmen's Pension Act." o a
rendered in all different lights. There is He bought a large estate, on which he
much which calls to mind the Japanese gave workmen the opportunity of building
painter, Hokusai, and his hundred views their homes, and established a store where
of Fuji-yama, but Japanese art was not, I they could buy cheaply everything they
believe, known at that time. a a wanted. On his land he kept one little
From London he came home, and there house where nobody was allowed to enter ;
it seemed that his career had come to an this was his studio, the sanctuary where,
end. In the year '48 the group of as painter, he lived in his memories. a
Norwegian artists from Dusseldorf were But one day a fire broke out which con-
returning home on account of political sumed not only most of the buildings but
trouble, and thenceforward the romantic- also the title-deeds, so that he was ruined,
ism of Dusseldorf became, in the opinion and died at the age of 83 in a state of
of the Norwegian public, the only art in poverty as great as that which had been
the world. Against such names as Tiede- his original condition. William Peters.
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"FROM VARDOHUS "
BY PEDER BALKE
Norwegian sketches. But, alas ! the Revo- mand, Gude and Cappelen, the naive inter-
lution of '48 came, and Louis Philippe had preter of the north was as nothing. a
to escape to England, so this commission He became a hermit, but his energetic
was never executed. From Paris, Balke nature turned to other activities. By his
went over to London, and lived there for travels in Europe during a time when so
a couple of years, obviously finding inspira- many new ideas were being discussed he
tion in the work of Turner. a a had gained a new insight into the needy
The subjects he mostly painted were conditions of the poor ; so, about the year
from his sketches in the north of Norway, 1850, he sent into the " Storthing " (the
with effects of the midnight sun and the Norwegian Parliament) a proposal for a
aurora borealis. The North Cape was " Workmen's Pension Act." o a
rendered in all different lights. There is He bought a large estate, on which he
much which calls to mind the Japanese gave workmen the opportunity of building
painter, Hokusai, and his hundred views their homes, and established a store where
of Fuji-yama, but Japanese art was not, I they could buy cheaply everything they
believe, known at that time. a a wanted. On his land he kept one little
From London he came home, and there house where nobody was allowed to enter ;
it seemed that his career had come to an this was his studio, the sanctuary where,
end. In the year '48 the group of as painter, he lived in his memories. a
Norwegian artists from Dusseldorf were But one day a fire broke out which con-
returning home on account of political sumed not only most of the buildings but
trouble, and thenceforward the romantic- also the title-deeds, so that he was ruined,
ism of Dusseldorf became, in the opinion and died at the age of 83 in a state of
of the Norwegian public, the only art in poverty as great as that which had been
the world. Against such names as Tiede- his original condition. William Peters.
252