Danish master Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) was best known for his ability to capture ‘types’ of landscapes, scenes of nature that embodied the essence of a country or region.
He traveled throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Middle East, painting such views, visiting Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, Greece, Algiers and Egypt.
His most popular paintings, however, were scenes from Scandinavia, especially his native Denmark.
The Dahesh holds two of Mønsted’s Nordic landscapes, one from Denmark and another from Norway.
Together they illustrate the different ways in which the painter found endless variety on nature’s effects and the changing seasons.
Mønsted exhibited his works at the Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen, and his paintings are featured today all over the world, including the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York and the Chi Mei Museum in Tainan.
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