Harald Sohlberg Norwegian, 1869-1935
Fisherman's Cottage
1906
Harald Sohlberg's 'Fisherman's Cottage' (1906) is one of the most reproduced paintings of Norwegian late-Romantic symbolism: a single red timber cabin stands before a still northern sea beneath a silver, almost supernatural dusk. Sohlberg's careful outlines and jewel-clear colour give the modest subject a haunting stillness that became the emblematic image of the 'Norwegian night'. The canvas is in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago