Adelsteen Normann - Artist Info

About Adelsteen Normann

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Norman Adelsteen, Adelsten Nordmann, Eilert Normann
  • Biography

    Adelsteen Normann was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway. Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted The Scream. Normann's fjord paintings are credited with making the Norwegian fjords a more popular tourist destination.

    Eilert Adelsteen Normann was born in 1848 in Bodin, Norway. He studied in Düsseldorf from 1869 to 1872, and his paintings are said to show a "Düsseldorf" technique. He studied with the Estonian painter Eugen Dücker. Another member of the Dusseldorf School was Anders Askevold.

    Normann based himself in Berlin from 1883. His paintings were nearly always landscapes and invariably ...

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