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  • Nikolai Astrup
    Aug 30, 1880 - Jan 21, 1928
  • St. Hans's Bonfire by the Beach (St. Hans Festival) - Nikolai Astrup was a Norwegian painter and printmaker known for his vivid and enchanting depictions of rural life in Norway, particularly in the region of Jølster, where he lived most of his life. Astrup’s work is often associated with the Symbolist and Neo-Romantic movements, and he is celebrated for his ability to capture the magic and mysticism of the Norwegian landscape.
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St. Hans's Bonfire by the Beach (St. Hans Festival)
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  • St. Hans's Bonfire by the Beach (St. Hans Festival)

  • Nikolai Astrup
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  • circa 1924
    Oil on canvas
    80 x 100 cm (31 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)

    The annual celebration of St. Hans' festival throughout Norway over mid-summer held a particular fascination for Astrup. The occasion not only reaffirmed contemporary Norway's links with its folkloric past, a theme that lies at the heart of Astrup's work, but presented to him a ritual of pagan origin which as the son of a pastor he had been forbidden to participate in.

    As an artist, however, he returned to the subject on many occasions, revelling in the glory of the bonfire and the primal forces it evoked. Significantly, and perhaps because of his father's disapproval of the ritual, Astrup invariably depicted the scene from afar, as viewed by a detached onlooker rather than a participant. The effect is to heighten the sense of mystery and sheer devilishness of the event, the tiny troll-like figures who do take part being dwarfed by the frenzy of the fire, and the billowing smoke that sullies the clean night air.

    Astrup's obsession with this ritual linking Norway to its roots, recalls Paul Gauguin's similiar fascination with the primordial force of fire, a theme that he explored both in Brittany and in Tahiti.

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Nikolai AstrupNorwegian modernist painter Nikolai Astrup was born in Kalvåg. In 1899, Astrup left for Kristiania (now Oslo) where he matriculated as student at the Royal Academy of Design. Astrup quickly left to join Harriet Backer’s painting school where he studied until 1901. Astrup lived in Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian. He was a student of Christian Krohg at Académie Colarossi from 1901-02. Astrup later traveled to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Hamburg. By 1902, he had returned to and settled in Jøster. In 1911, Astrup studied under Lovis Corinth in Berlin at Arthur Lewin-Funcke’s school of Painting.

Astrup preferred clear, strong colors and usually made landscape art depicting his surroundings in Jølster. His paintings describe an intimate interaction between nature and the developed environment, characterized by bold lines and distinctive rich color. Astrup is regarded as a neo-romantic painter, but he also worked with woodcuts.