Major Harald Sohlberg exhibition at the National Gallery in the National Museum of Norway

Harald Sohlberg’s famously blue-tinged Winter Night in the Mountains has captivated viewers for over a century now, but his career was about far more than this iconic depiction of mid-winter majesty. This autumn, the National Museum will display around sixty of the artist’s most famous paintings, in addition to a number of drawings, sketches, and prints. We invite members of the media to attend a preview of the exhibition on Thursday, 27 September 2018, at 11:00 a.m. To register, please contact elise.lund@nasjonalmuseet.no.

The exhibition will feature exept the much-loved classics such as Winter Night in the Mountains, Summer Night, and Flower Meadow in the North, motives fromthe Oslo and from other smaller places in Norway.

“Sohlberg did not strive for a naturalistic reproduction, but tried instead to conjure up a certain mood,” notes the exhibition’s curator Mai Britt Guleng. “Although his pictures depict specific places, they also serve as landscapes of the mind, of contemplation, of the eternal.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a handsome catalogue featuring a number of essays based on new research. A children’s book about Sohlberg and his dog Fram has also been written for the exhibition.

The exhibition opens on 28 September 2018 and will run until 13 January 2019. Afterwards it will be shown at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and at Museum Wiesbaden in Germany. This will be the first time that the art of Harald Sohlberg (1869–1935) will be shown so extensively to a European audience.

Press contact: Elise Lund (+47 99 32 19 42, elise.lund@nasjonalmuseet.no)