Peder BalkeHard luck in the land of supernatural beauty

Peder Balke was a Norwegian artist born in 1804. Balke contributed to the Romantic movement and died in 1887. Get notified when Peder Balke's biography is complete:

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

1746-1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

1775-1851

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

1832-1883

1801 1900

The second person to invent photography

Hippolyte Bayard

Five kids, a farm, and dizzying allegory

Thomas Cole Peder Balke

The inventor of the steam hammer maps the moon

James Nasmyth

The art of seeing

Charles Darwin

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Peder BalkeHard luck in the land of supernatural beauty

North Cape

Steigen

Lighthouse on the Norwegian Coast

Coastal Landscape with Wreck

Vardøhus Fortress

Månelys

Northern Lights

The Northern Lights over Four Men in a Rowboat