Niels Carl Michaelius Flint Dahl - Artist Info

About Niels Carl Michaelius Flint Dahl

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Carl Dahl
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    Niels Carl Michaelius (Michael) Flindt Dahl, usually known as Carl Dahl, (24 March 1812, Faaborg - 7 April 1865, Frederiksberg)

    He was a Danish marine painter during the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

    In 1835, Dahl entered the Danish Academy where he ultimately specialized in marine painting under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg who took him to Langelinie where he was able to paint frigates and liners in their natural environment. In addition to a study tour of Italy and the Mediterranean, he traveled to Lisbon (1840), Germany and France (1852 and 1855), Norway (1861) and to London and the Faroe Islands (1862). As a result of his interest in marine painting, he became one of Eckersberg's closest friends in th...

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