Viking Star Art Collection

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 JAKOB WEIDEMANN 1923–2001 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS Norwegian painter Jakob Weidemann is considered one of the most influential artists in Norwegian modernism from the 1950s until his death in 2001, and he was a pioneer of abstract painting in Norway in the decades after World War II. Weidemann is known for his abstract expressionist paintings with nature as inspiration. After some experimentation with different artistic ideas in the 1940s and 1950s, he eventually found his signature style in an expressive, lyrical-abstract art with nature as inspiration and starting point. These paintings are characterized by light hues of blue, pink, yellow, green and violet. AKELEIE | 1971 36

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 ØRNULF OPDAHL 1944 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY Ørnulf Opdahl’s interpretation of the dramatic landscape of Western Norway has been popular with a large audience for decades, and Opdahl is often referred to as the great romantic in Norwegian contemporary art, renewing the Norwegian landscape painting in the tradition of Old Masters such as J. C. Dahl and Peder Balke. A mixture of concrete experiences and abstract impressions converge in his quest to capture this majestic landscape and its changing atmospheres, outside his studio on the rugged west coast of Norway, in a language most Norwegians understand and recognize. Opdahl was a professor at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo for several years, and his paintings are acquired in most public art collections in Norway. SKRED | YEAR UNKNOWN 37