Peder Balke - part 2

The Norwegian landscape and marine painter Peder Balke (1804–1887) merged the Romantic movement's spiritual vein of naturalism with an expressiveness rarely equalled by his contemporaries. Born in humble circumstances in what was then a northern hinterland, Balke trained as an artisan before pursuing his aim to become an artist in the broader European tradition, which led to formative contacts with Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl. From the 1840s onward, Balke searched for ever more personal means to convey the wild beauty of Norway, producing dramatic, even hallucinatory paintings that reject conventional fine-art techniques in favour of radical simplifications of form and colour. Balke seems to have ceased painting after the 1870s, and he was essentially forgotten until the 20th century. In recent years, however, he’s been rediscovered by artists, collectors, and scholars alike.

For more in formation on Peder Balke, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of 2-part post on the works of Peder Balke:

1860-69c Coastal Landscape
oil on paper 33.5 x 25.5 cm
Private Collection

1860-69c Coastal Landscape with Ship
oil on canvas 16 x 36 cm
Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway

1860-69c Coastal Landscape with Wreck
oil on paper laid down on fibreboard 34 x 52 cm
Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo, Norway

1860-69c Mount Gausta
oil on canvas 48.5 x 45 cm
 Private Collection

1860-69c Nordland
oil on canvas 61 x 72 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

1860-69c North Cape
oil on panel 21 x 24 cm
Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway

1860-69c Sea and Fog
oil on paper laid down on cardboard 34.5 x 26 cm
 Private Collection

1860-69c Seascape
oil on copper laid down on cardboard 16.8 x 23.2 cm
 Private Collection

1860-69c The Old Bridge
oil on panel 35 x 26 cm
 Private Collection

1860-69c Waterfall
oil on paper laid down on panel 11.5 x 8.5 cm
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

1860-79c Coastal Landscape
oil on panel 16.5 x 13 cm
Private Collection

1860-79c Seascape with Cliffs
oil on panel 11.8 x 16.2 cm
Private Collection

1860-79c Steigen
oil on paper laid down on panel 22.3 x 20.3 cm
 Private Collection

1860-79c Stormy Sea
oil on cardboard 13.4 x 17.3 cm 

1860c Landscape from Finnmark
oil on canvas 88.6 x 132.1 cm
Private Collection

1860s North Cape
oil on paper laid down on cardboard 35.2 x 25.5 cm
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

1860s Seascape
oil on canvas laid down on cardboard
Collection of Asbjorn Lunde

1864 Fog over Stetind
oil on canvas 71.5 x 58.5 cm
National Gallery, Oslo, Norway

1864 Mount Stetind with Birch
oil on copper 71 x 58 cm
Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo, Norway

1865 Lighthouse in Mist
oil on canvas laid down on panel 71 x 58 cm
 Private Collection

1870 Månelys

1870 Northern Lights over Coastal Landscape

1870 Vardøhus Fortress
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Oslo, Norway

1870-79c North Cape
oil on panel 124 x 152 cm
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway

1870-79c Vardøhus Fortress
oil on paper laid down on canvas 38 x 52 cm
 Private Collection

1870c Stormy Sea
 8 x 11 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

1870s Northern Lights
oil on wood 10 x 12 cm
The Hearn Family Trust

1870s Ship in a Storm
oil on composition board 8 x 12 cm
The Hearn Family Trust

1870s Ships in a Storm
oil on wood 9.5 x 11.4 cm
Collection of Mickey Cartin

1874 Lighthouse
oil on panel 12.5 x 17 cm
Private Collection

1887 The Northern Lights over Four Men in a Rowing Boat

1950c Moonlit View of Stockholm
oil on panel 67.3 x 100.3 cm
Private Collection

From Finnmark's Open Country
 95 x 123 cm
Private Collection

n.d. From Nordland
oil on canvas mounted on masonite 61 x 72 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

n.d. Sailing in a Coastal Landscape

n.d. The Northern Lights Route
oil on panel 124 x 152 cm
 Trøndelag kunstgalleri, Trondheim