Louis Apol

A Norwegian Fjord, um 1880

German and Norwegian artists were not the only ones to set out for the land of Norway to explore it in their work. Although he specialised in winter landscapes, Lodewijk Frederik Henrik (Louis) Apol – a painter from the Dutch city of The Hague and an important representative of the Hague School – actually ended up in Norway involuntarily. In 1880 he had been invited to take part in the third Dutch expedition to the Arctic, and he set sail for Spitsbergen on the “Willem Barentsz”. However, disast...

Signatur: Louis Apol, unten rechts, handschriftlich

Kunsthandel, Niederlande (2002); MKdW (2002).
Faszination Norwegen. Landschaftsmalerei von der Romantik bis zur Moderne, hrsg. von Tilmann von Stockhausen und Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg im Breisgau, Heide 2018, S. 24 f., Kat. 32.

Louis Apol (1850 - 1936)

A Norwegian Fjord

um 1880

Oil on canvas

80 x 121.5 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 3 APO 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2002

Not on display

Derzeit zu sehen / Currently on display: Landesmuseum Hannover (bis / until May 2026)