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Axel Nordgren, Coast in the Moonlight atmospheric nocturnal coastal landscape with a lonely rowing boat on the water in front of fishermen's cottages on the beach, atmospheric, glazed, partially impasto painting in almost monochrome colours, Brita Linde comments "... Together with his younger colleague Gustaf Rydberg, Nordgren discovered the beaches of Arild and Skälderviken in the 1870s. From here he mainly painted moonlight pieces. The dark, stony beach usually forms an ellipse ... and contrasts with the wide expanse that glistens on the slightly undulating water surface. The horizon is low, so that the sky with the full moon between clouds dominates the scenery. ...", c. 1870, signed "A. Nordgren" on the reverse of the canvas, framed in gilt stucco moulding, folded dimensions approx. 49 x 84.5 cm. Artist information: actually Axel Wilhelm Nordgren, Swedish portrait and landscape painter (1828 Stockholm - 1888 Düsseldorf), first instructed by his father, the painter Carl Vilhelm Nordgren (1804-1857), studied at the Stockholm Academy from 1845-48, travelled with a scholarship from the Swedish crown prince Karl Ludvig Eugen Bernadotte, later King Charles XV (1826-1872). (1826-1872) travelled to Düsseldorf, from 1851 further training in Düsseldorf, among others with Hans Fredrik Gude and Andreas Achenbach, then freelanced in Düsseldorf, maintained friendship with Morten Müller, undertook annual summer study trips with Gude and Müller to Småland, Norway and Finland, in the 1860s to Trollhättan, Huskvarna, Bohuslän, Arild and Skälderviken and in the 1870s trips to southern Sweden (Skåne), was appointed Swedish court painter in 1869 and became a member of the Stockholm Academy, travelled to the Netherlands in 1871, suffered a stroke in 1883 and gave up travelling, exhibited in Berlin, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Königsberg, Düsseldorf, Bergen/Norway, Dresden, London, Lyon, Mainz, Munich, Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover and Vienna, member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten" from 1857-88, active in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Swedish biographical lexicon, Boetticher, Müller-Singer, Baumgärtel/Schroyen "Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819-1918", Bruckmann "Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule", Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger and Wikipedia.

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Axel Nordgren, Coast in the Moonlight atmospheric nocturnal coastal landscape with a lonely rowing boat on the water in front of fishermen's cottages on the beach, atmospheric, glazed, partially impasto painting in almost monochrome colours, Brita Linde comments "... Together with his younger colleague Gustaf Rydberg, Nordgren discovered the beaches of Arild and Skälderviken in the 1870s. From here he mainly painted moonlight pieces. The dark, stony beach usually forms an ellipse ... and contrasts with the wide expanse that glistens on the slightly undulating water surface. The horizon is low, so that the sky with the full moon between clouds dominates the scenery. ...", c. 1870, signed "A. Nordgren" on the reverse of the canvas, framed in gilt stucco moulding, folded dimensions approx. 49 x 84.5 cm. Artist information: actually Axel Wilhelm Nordgren, Swedish portrait and landscape painter (1828 Stockholm - 1888 Düsseldorf), first instructed by his father, the painter Carl Vilhelm Nordgren (1804-1857), studied at the Stockholm Academy from 1845-48, travelled with a scholarship from the Swedish crown prince Karl Ludvig Eugen Bernadotte, later King Charles XV (1826-1872). (1826-1872) travelled to Düsseldorf, from 1851 further training in Düsseldorf, among others with Hans Fredrik Gude and Andreas Achenbach, then freelanced in Düsseldorf, maintained friendship with Morten Müller, undertook annual summer study trips with Gude and Müller to Småland, Norway and Finland, in the 1860s to Trollhättan, Huskvarna, Bohuslän, Arild and Skälderviken and in the 1870s trips to southern Sweden (Skåne), was appointed Swedish court painter in 1869 and became a member of the Stockholm Academy, travelled to the Netherlands in 1871, suffered a stroke in 1883 and gave up travelling, exhibited in Berlin, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Königsberg, Düsseldorf, Bergen/Norway, Dresden, London, Lyon, Mainz, Munich, Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover and Vienna, member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten" from 1857-88, active in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Swedish biographical lexicon, Boetticher, Müller-Singer, Baumgärtel/Schroyen "Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819-1918", Bruckmann "Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule", Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger and Wikipedia.

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