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JOHANN CHRISTIAN DAHL (1778-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN See also:DAHL (1778-1857)  , See also:Norwegian lands- cape painter, was See also:born in See also:Bergen . He formed his See also:style without much tuition, remaining at Bergen till. he was twenty-four, when he See also:left for the better See also:field of See also:Copenhagen, and ultimately settled in See also:Dresden in 1818 . He is usually included in the See also:German school, although he was thus See also:close on See also:forty years of See also:age when he finally tdok up his See also:abode in Dresden, where, he was quickly received into the See also:Academy and became See also:professor . German landscape-See also:painting was not greatly advanced at that See also:time, and See also:Dahl contributed to improve it . He continued to reside in Dresden, though he travelled into See also:Tirol and in See also:Italy, painting many pictures, one of his best being that of the " Outbreak of See also:Vesuvius, 1820." He was fond of extraordinary effects, as seen in his " See also:Winter at See also:Munich," and his " Dresden by . Moonlight;" also the " Haven, of Copenhagen," and the " Schloss of Friedrichsburg," under the same See also:condition . At Dresden may be seen many of his See also:works, notably a large picture called " See also:Norway," and a " See also:Storm at See also:Sea." He was received into several See also:academic bodies, and had the orders of Wasa and St See also:Olaf sent him by the See also:king of Norway and See also:Sweden .

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