Nikolai Astrup: the lost artist of Norway | Art and design | The Guardian
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Marsh Marigold Night, circa 1915, by Nikolai Astrup
Marsh Marigold Night, c 1915, by Nikolai Astrup. Photograph: Dag Fosse/Kode Art Museums of Bergen
He should be as famous as Edvard Munch, but the world seems to have forgotten him – until now. Astrup is getting his first major show outside Norway ... and his visions of the Scandinavian landscape are eerie and sublime
Norway’s legendary modern artist who captured his country’s fantastically eerie landscapes is about to be celebrated. And no, it isn’t Edvard Munch.
It’s Nikolai Astrup – a legend in his own land, but barely known outside of it. In fact, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in London, is putting on the first significant show of Astrup’s work outside Norway in the new year. Will it make him as famous as Munch, his contemporary?