Kitty Kielland and the peat bogs of Jaeren

Описание: Norwegian artist Kitty Kielland (1843-1914) pioneered a new artistic vision of Norway's landscapes with her paintings of the peat bogs of Jaeren, a coastal region south of her native city of Stavanger. This film takes a deep dive into the bogs.

[2340] Published 20 November 2023.

Chapters
00:10 Norway in the 19th century: background
02:08 Art and artists in 19th-century Norway
03:09 The National-Romantic school of landscape
05:13 New visions of Norwegian landscape
06:40 Kitty Kielland
12:09 Jaeren
12:46 The peat bogs
13:32 'The Peat Bog' (1880): analysis
16:56 The beauty of the bog
18:40 The peat bog as national symbol
19:40 Conclusion

SELECTED SOURCES & FURTHER READING

H. Arnold Barton. Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture 1814-1905 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003).

Susan Fisher Sterling et al. At Century's End: Norwegian Artists and the Figurative Tradition 1880/1990 (Oslo: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Washington DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1996).

Torsten Gunnarsson. Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998).

Neil Kent, The Triumph of Light and Nature: Nordic Art 1740-1940 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1987).

Kitty L. Kielland. The Woman Question: In Answer to Pastor J. M. Faerden (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020).

Ole Henrik Moe. The Song of Norway: Norwegian Landscape Painting from 1814 to the Present (Oslo: Grøndahl Dreyer, 1994).

Kirk Varnedoe. Northern Light: Nordic Art at the Turn of the Century (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1988).