Harald Oskar Sohlberg (29 November 1869 – 19 June 1935) was a Norwegian Neo-romantic painter.!
Meet Harald Sohlberg, A Solitary Genius
Harald Sohlberg was a Norwegian painter whose works can be described as Neo-Romantic.
He is particularly known for his depictions of the mountains of Rondane and the town of Røros. Perhaps his most widely recognized painting, in several variations, is Winter’s Night in Rondane, currently featured at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway.
Harald Sohlberg was a Norwegian Neo-Romantic painter who is known for his depictions of the mountains of Rondane and the town of Røros.
Unfortunately, Sohlberg’s work remains fairly unknown internationally, although many of his significant paintings are in Norwegian public collections.
Harald Sohlberg (1869–1935) came from a large, middle-class family with eight children.
He did not finish school and instead apprenticed with a decorative painter from age 16. He was very committed to the Romantic idea of the artist as a solitary genius and tended to isolate himself for large periods of time and devote himself entirely to his paintings.
Just like his fellow Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, he de