Carl Ludvig Thilson Locher

Calm Sea at the Port, n. d.

In this small-format seascape, Carl Locher has captured the warm evening light permeating the atmosphere along a stretch of coast by the glassy smooth surface of the sea. Tranquillity even seems to be gradually setting in on the sailing boats: some lie at anchor out on the sea while the last tasks of the day are being carried out on others before nightfall. The work radiates a deep sense of calm – and the small format does its part in demanding an intimate dialogue with its viewers. Carl Locher...

Signature: C. Locher, lower right

Label: 1208, backside

Other: Stamped: P. D. MARQUE DE FABRIQUE, backside

Kunsthandel, Frankfurt a. M. (2018); Privatbesitz, Deutschland (bis 2021); MKdW (2021, gestiftet aus Privatbesitz).
Mittsommer. Stimmungslandschaften aus dem Norden 1880–1920, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Dresden 2025, S. 156, Abb. S. 68.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Peter Schmidt Hansen: Carl Locher, Birkerød 2010.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Knud Voss: Die Maler des Lichts. Nordische Kunst auf Skagen, Weingarten 1995.

Carl Ludvig Thilson Locher (1851 - 1915)

Calm Sea at the Port

n. d.

Oil on wood

23.5 x 33 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 LOC 02_DPL

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2021

Not on display

Schenkung Prof. Dr. Axel Wieandt, Königstein i. Ts.