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Title: Norway and its fjords
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wyllie, M. A
Subjects: Norway -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co. New York, J. Pott & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y the Frenchopen-air tendency. At flrst he sought his subjects in thesouth country fjord scenery, but afterwards made theeast country winter, with its masses of snow and half-frozen rivers, his special study. His picture in tliisgallery is perhaps a trifle uninteresting, but the whole isunconventional and real—the turbid stream forcing its waythrough the snow-covered flat, on which are nicely drawntrees, with bare branches waving against the wintry sky. The younger generation are, I am convinced, wellrepresented by the painters Axel Ender and Otto Sinding.Axel Enders picture The Resurrection Morn givesdistinction to the little church at Molde. It illuminatesthe interior in a wonderful degree by its faint chastecolouring. The surprise on the listening womens faces iswell rendered, and the angels figure is easily poised on thetomb. Otto Sinding is altogether stronger. It would beinteresting to know what influence was exerted to makethese great men what they are. The versatile Otto was
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THREE BROTHERS, HEYERDAHL, KROHG 25 born in 1842, and is a brother of the sculptor StephenSinding, and of Christian Sinding the composer, each amaster of his art. Otto Sinding made his debut inliterature before he began his artistic studies, and tried tofind satisfaction in a variety of tasks. He divided hisgreat working powers between painting and literary orscenic interests. He has painted marine pictures andgenre, historical scenes, representations of fishing life onthe Norwegian coast, landscapes, peasant life, and fishingin the Lofoten Islands. These latter works, to my mind,are as good if not better than any I have seen fromhis brush. On page 228 is a very impressive renderingof a fishing village among the Lofotens, The snow isdeep over the cabins and fields that lie at the foot ofgreat walls of rock, whose peaks jut into the mists. Atthe head of the fjord are the square-sailed cod boats.Hard frost is wonderfully suggested; the smoke risesstraight into the still air. It is quite

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