Arne Kavli

A Port in Sørlandet, n. d.

The painting depicts a harbour view in southern Norway. In the upper half of the picture, and thus on the opposite side of the shore from the viewer, the characteristically Nordic red wooden houses can be made out. The water surface, painted in light and dark blue tones, is interrupted by a few sailing boats. The lower coastline runs smoothly between land and water, its curve contrasting with the straight lines of the houses and the boats on the still water. It is precisely this coastline and al...

Signatur: A-Kavli, unten links, handschriftlich

Privatbesitz Norwegen (bis 2021); MKdW (2021).
Sommeren med Edvard Munch og Arne Kavli, Ausst.-Kat. Stiftelsen Modums Blaafarveark 1999, S. 133.
Henning Repetzky: Kavli, Arne, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Bd. 79, Berlin 2013, S. 465.

Arne Kavli (1878 - 1970)

A Port in Sørlandet

n. d.

Oil on canvas

56 x 65 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 KAV 02

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2021

Not on display

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025