Hermann August Cappelen

Place: Skien

Born: 1827

Death: 1852

Biography:

August Cappelen was a Norwegian painter. Cappelen was best known for his melancholic, dramatic and romantic landscape compositions. He was born in Skien, Norway. He was the son of Diderik von Cappelen (1795–1866) and Margaret Noble Severine Henriette Løvenskiold (1796–1866). Both the father and the mother were from noble families. Cappelen went on several study tours in Norway: the Gudbrandsdalen and Lom (along with Gude and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg, 1846), Sogn and Hardanger (1847), as well as the Dovre region (1848). He also visited Germany and France. The most important collection of Cappelen's art is in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. The National Gallery owns three of his major works: Waterfall in Kvernhus, 1850; Utdøende urskog i uvær, 1851; and Morkne trær, 1851.