Author: TIDEMAND, ADOLF. Tonsberg, Christian.
Title: Udvalgte norske Folkelivsbilleder af Adolf Tidemand, med Text af forskjellige Forfattere. Udgivne af Chr. Tonberg. [Title on title plate: Udvalgte norske Folkelivsbilleder efter Malerier og Tegninger af Adolf Tidemand. Med oplysende Text af Forskjellige Forfattere udgivne af Chr. To¨nsberg].
Description: Christiania, Udgiverens forlag, 1864. Printed title page, cromolithographed title plate, 1 page with table of contenst, [24] pages text & 11 fine full page chromolithograhs after paintings and drawings of Norwegian folk life by Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876). Orig. decorative publisher's full leather binding (gilt-tooled & blind stamped red mor.). Obl. 4to. - Covers worn along the extrimities; minimal foxing; owner's entry in ink on title-page. A very rare complete copy. - Text by the cploured lithographed plates in Danish, German, and English, in parallel columns, by P.C. Asbjørnsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Henrik Ibsen, Jørgen Moe, and Andreas Munch. - - Adolph Tidemand (1814 - 1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne (The Haugeans; 1852) and Brudeferd i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger; 1848), painted in collaboration with Hans Gude. Today Adolph Tidemand is best known for this depiction of Norwegian farm and culture and is counted among the first Norwegian historic painters. In Tidemand's paintings of the old Norwegian farm culture, he portrayed the peasant with a new dignity, humane and culturally.

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