Lot 322: Norvège, 1891

Knud Knudsen (1832-1915) and Axel Theodor Lindahl (1841-1906), Photographers
Norvège, 1891
four albums containing 214 photographs, comprising 177 mounted on single card album leaves and 37 forming 8 two-part and 7 three-part panoramas, mounted on folding joined card album leaves, of Norwegian fjords, landscapes, town scenes, churches, villagers, farmers, fishermen and Lapps, including views of Kristiania, Bergen, Hardanger, the Svartisen Glacier, Tromso and Finnarken, the panoramas including views of 'Kristiania fra St. Hanshaugen', 'Udsigt fra Molde', 'A Parti af Bergen', 'Parti ved Hammerfest', 'Lyngenfjord, Tromso Amt.', 'Lofotfjeldene fra Skjolvaer', 'Braksaettinderne, Raftsund', 'Trondhjem', 'Nordland, Braksettinderne og Trolfjorden fra Raftsund', 'Lyngstadfjeldene fra Aarobugten, Lyngenfjord' and 'Brettesnaes, Lofoten'

the majority numbered and titled in the negative with photographers' credit 'Axel Lindahl' on 72, 'K. Knudsen, Bergen' on 90 and initials 'K.K.B.' on 9
silver iodide prints
8¼ x 10¾in. (21 x 27.3cm.) and smaller
2° albums, contemporary half red leather, 3 titled 'NORVèGE 1891' in gilt on spine and upper boards, the fourth titled 'NORVèGE 1891 TRONDJEIM AU CAP NORD' in gilt on spine and upper board, bookplate of Chenu-Tournier on front pastedown of first album (4)

A fine, early photographic record of Norway by the two leading Norwegian landscape photographers of the day.

Knudsen was born in Odda, Norway and studied photography in Norway and Germany. He produced the largest series of Norwegian landscape photographs on record, numbering 9,000 before his retirement in 1898. Lindahl, born in Sweden, travelled extensively throughout Norway and was considered to be Knudsen's chief rival in landscape photography, copying Knudsen and Marcus Selmer's Romantic motifs of bygone culture, wild, untouched nature and its dwarfed, contemplative spectator.