Johan Christian DahlNorwegian, 1788–1857Wolkenstudie
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Albertinum
Dresden, Germany
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 27, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Johan Christian Dahl
The whole life1818
Friendship with Caspar David Friedrich
Friedrich, fourteen years his senior, helps him establish himself in the city and becomes a close friend: the two share a love of nature and a profound contempt for academic clichés. Together with Friedrich and Carl Gustav Carus, Dahl will become one of the Dresden painters who exerted a decisive influence on German Romantic painting.
September 1818
Moves to Dresden
Having received a special stipend from Prince Christian Frederik, Dahl travels to Saxony and settles in Dresden, bringing letters of introduction to the city's leading citizens and artists. That same year he writes to the prince that he is representing nature above all in its freedom and wildness.
12 June 1820
Married: Emilie von Block
1827
His wife Emilie dies in childbirth
Emilie Dahl dies in childbirth while bearing their fourth child.
January 1830
Married: Amalie von Bassewitz
December 1830
His second wife Amalie dies in childbirth
Amalie von Bassewitz, his student, whom he had married in January, also dies in childbirth. Dahl is crushed and many months pass before he can paint again; some years later the youngest child dies too, leaving Siegwald and Caroline as his two surviving children.
