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Erik Bodom (September 28, 1829 – c. 1879) was a Norwegian
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 landscape painter
Landscape art

Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition....
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Bodom was born in Vestby
Vestby

Vestby is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Follo Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestby....
, and was educated in Christiania
Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
 (modern-day Oslo), but concerned himself more with drawing than his studies. When Hans Gude
Hans Gude

Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norway Norwegian romantic nationalism painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters....
 returned from Germany in 1848, Bodom joined his studio, and traveled with him in 1850 to Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf

D?sseldorf is the capital city of the Germany state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany. The city is situated on the River Rhine and has a high population density - the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has over 10 million inhabitants alone....
. Bodom's first large work, Aus dem Bondhusthal, went to the Bridgewater Gallery in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
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Bodom's favored subjects were the desert, lonely forest areas, and mountain tarns
Tarn (lake)

File:Velke Hincovo pleso.jpgA tarn is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn....
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Erik Bodom (September 28, 1829 – c. 1879) was a Norwegian
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 landscape painter
Landscape art

Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition....
.

Bodom was born in Vestby
Vestby

Vestby is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Follo Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestby....
, and was educated in Christiania
Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
 (modern-day Oslo), but concerned himself more with drawing than his studies. When Hans Gude
Hans Gude

Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norway Norwegian romantic nationalism painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters....
 returned from Germany in 1848, Bodom joined his studio, and traveled with him in 1850 to Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf

D?sseldorf is the capital city of the Germany state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany. The city is situated on the River Rhine and has a high population density - the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has over 10 million inhabitants alone....
. Bodom's first large work, Aus dem Bondhusthal, went to the Bridgewater Gallery in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Bodom's favored subjects were the desert, lonely forest areas, and mountain tarns
Tarn (lake)

File:Velke Hincovo pleso.jpgA tarn is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn....
. His work was characterized by a melancholic and romantic
Romanticism

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution....
 tendency. He died in Düsseldorf.

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