Condition of the print after treatment- Borgunds kirke
I bought this print very cheap on a market. It is a lithograph by Prahl, the title is BORGUNDS KIRKE i Leidal B.S.. Schirtz pinx, Lund lith.
The lithograph may be dated to 1848 or 1873. It may be from a series of ten views commissioned by I.C.Dahl based on sketches mostly made by his former German student Frantz Wilhelm Schirtz (1813-1887). Asked by Dahl, he came to Norway in 1836 to draw and take measurements of the remaining wooden medieval churches. Borgund was one of them (he also visited Urnes, Heddal and Vang church, before it was taken to pieces and moved out to be set up again in Karpacz, Poland).
This wooden church was built in medeival times 1150-1300. Three small window in the roof have been added much later. A new church was built nearby in 1864 and the old one restored at the same time. At this stage the little windows and some other alterations were removed. This image, and as far as I know, just two photographs show the church before the restoration. As it happens, I also own one such photograph, a stereocopic view by Knud Knudsen.
The Borgund stave church is iconic and photographed in large format by both K.Knudsen and other landscape photographers like Axel Lindahl. A number of other medieaval stave churches have been restored or styled after it. Today there are only 27 stave churches remaining in Norway.
Condition of the print after treatment- Borgunds kirke
I bought this print very cheap on a market. It is a lithograph by Prahl, the title is BORGUNDS KIRKE i Leidal B.S.. Schirtz pinx, Lund lith.
The lithograph may be dated to 1848 or 1873. It may be from a series of ten views commissioned by I.C.Dahl based on sketches mostly made by his former German student Frantz Wilhelm Schirtz (1813-1887). Asked by Dahl, he came to Norway in 1836 to draw and take measurements of the remaining wooden medieval churches. Borgund was one of them (he also visited Urnes, Heddal and Vang church, before it was taken to pieces and moved out to be set up again in Karpacz, Poland).
This wooden church was built in medeival times 1150-1300. Three small window in the roof have been added much later. A new church was built nearby in 1864 and the old one restored at the same time. At this stage the little windows and some other alterations were removed. This image, and as far as I know, just two photographs show the church before the restoration. As it happens, I also own one such photograph, a stereocopic view by Knud Knudsen.
The Borgund stave church is iconic and photographed in large format by both K.Knudsen and other landscape photographers like Axel Lindahl. A number of other medieaval stave churches have been restored or styled after it. Today there are only 27 stave churches remaining in Norway.