(1900 - 1936)

Emblom was Swedish, and was born in Stockholm. Despite his Swedish origin, it is correct to call Emblom "Balholm painter". We know that Emblom stayed in Balestrand for long periods. He was, among other things, a good friend of Sigurd Kvikne d. e., and was called Uncle Einar by the Kvikne family. He was in Balestrand in the summer, and in Switzerland in the winter. Emblom died in Switzerland at only 36 years old.

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(1889-1968)

Printz was born in Nes, Romerike. He studied in Kristiania under, among others, Christian Krogh and Halfdan Strøm.

He lived in Balestrand for quite a long time, and was well liked by the villagers. There are many pictures of Printz here in Balestrand.

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(1900-1936)

Enblom was Swedish, and was born in Stockholm. Despite his Swedish origin, it is correct to call Enblom "Balholm painter". We know that Enblom stayed in Balestrand for long periods. He was, among other things, a good friend of Sigurd Kvikne, and was called Uncle Einar by the Kvikne family.

He was in Balestrand in the summer, and in Switzerland in the winter. Enblom died in Switzerland at only 36 years old.

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(1848 - 1918)

Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1 May 1848–26 December 1918) was a Norwegian painter. He was educated in Düsseldorf, Germany, and settled there. During the summer he traveled around Northern Norway and made sketches. He specialized in romantic fjord landscapes, often with a small steamboat or sailboat on a mirror-like sea. Normann was the first from Northern Norway to establish himself as a painter.

Normann was the son of a farmer and merchant on Vågøya in Bodin. After working as a journeyman for merchant Koch in Bodø, he traveled to Bergen and later Copenhagen to learn the trade. During his studies in Copenhagen, his interest in art took over. From 1869 to 1873, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, where he was greatly influenced by the tradition of his compatriot Hans Gude. He thus became a typical late Düsseldorfer. Normann also found a spouse and permanent address in the Rhine city, at a time when other Norwegian painters were seeking Paris.

With his background from Nordland, Normann specialized in Norwegian fjord landscapes. He found motifs especially in Lofoten and Northern Norway, as well as around the Sognefjord. On his study trips in Norway, he made sketches that he used to compose large-format landscape paintings. His fjord motifs are often characterized by steep mountains over sunny fjords and sea. Light played a major role in Normann's paintings; he was one of the first Norwegian painters to use the midnight sun as a motif. He is said to be the originator of the term "land of the midnight sun". His paintings became very popular with the German art public.

(1813 - 1887)

Franz Wilhelm Schiertz (born 4 August 1813 in Leipzig; died 6 October 1887 in Balestrand) was a German-Norwegian painter and architect .

Schiertz, the son of Johann Friedrich Elias Schiertz, was a student of the Norwegian Johan Christian Klausson Dahl (1788–1857) in Dresden and became known as a landscape painter.

In 1836 he was sent to Norway to make architectural drawings of the stave churches in Borgund, Heddal and Urnes, which were published in Dahl's work on Norwegian wooden buildings in 1837.

In 1841, the stave church at Vang in Valdres was sold. After Dahl tried in vain to keep it in the country, he persuaded the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV to buy the church. Schiertz was given the task of supervising and documenting the demolition, transport and reconstruction at Krummhübel in Lower Silesia (today Karparcz in Poland).

In 1844 he accompanied Dahl on his trip to Norway. In the revolutionary year of 1848 he supported the instigators and was forced to leave Dresden. In 1851 he went to Bergen. Schiertz made survey drawings of Håkonshallen on behalf of JC Dahl. On 10 May 1856 he married in Selje Karen Sophie Reusch Koren (born 26 August 1832 in Bergen; died 23 March 1933), the daughter of Paul Schonevig Stub Koren and Henriette Christiana Rulfs.

He was a draftsman for the Norwegian North Sea Expedition 1876–78. He was a drawing teacher to Fridtjof Nansen and Ludvig Munthe. He was also a teacher to the young Anders Askevold.

His grave is located at Tjugum cemetery near Balestrand.

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(1900-1936)
Emblom was Swedish, and was born in Stockholm. Despite his Swedish origin, it is correct to call Emblom "Balholm painter". We know that Emblom stayed in Balestrand for long periods. He was, among other things, a good friend of Sigurd Kvikne d. e., and was called Uncle Einar by the Kvikne family. He was in Balestrand in the summer, and in Switzerland in the winter. Emblom died in Switzerland at only 36 years old.