#andreas bloch

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Andreas Bloch

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Sigurd the Crusader entering Constantinople by Andreas Bloch

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Andreas Bloch (Norwegian, 1860 – 1917)

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Norwegian artist Andreas Bloch illustrated several of the icelandic sagas in his time. Here is some of them.

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Finn Heiberg bookplate (1904). Artist: Andreas Bloch (Norwegian, 1860-1917).

Bloch is remembered primarily for his drawings. He delivered illustrations to the satirical magazines Vikingen, Krydseren and Korsaren, illustrated numerous books, and designed costumes for Christiania Theater and Nationaltheatret. He designed posters and theatrical costumes, as well as portraits.

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Norges Grundlov 1814 "Frihed, Lighed, Broderskab" ("Constitunion of Norway 1814 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"), from 1914 by Norwegian artist Andreas Bloch (1860-1917).

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Romantic nationalist postcard, text Frihed, Lig(hed), Broderskab, Norge(s) Grundlov 1814. ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Constitution of Norway 1814") by Andreas Bloch (1905)

The old clairvoyance had for a long time vanished in the rest of Europe, while it was still preserved in the North. Only very gradually, slowly and by degrees has the outlook of man become limited to the picture of the physical world. Thus at the time when Christianity began to spread abroad, that which is expressed in the Balder myth, in the death of Balder, had become true for the majority of men. There were, however, still a few who were able to see directly that which the Scandinavian experienced clairvoyantly. … On the other hand the peoples lying more towards the West and the North have the task, under the guidance of their Folk-souls, of directing their gaze out into the world, and of seeing what is there to be seen on the physical plane, and of perfecting that which has to play a part on that plane. The Germanic Scandinavian peoples had also the special task of perfecting this as they alone could, because they still enjoyed the blessing of being able to see into the spiritual world with the old clairvoyance, and to carry the primeval experiences which they perceived so vividly, into that which had to be arranged on the physical plane. 

—Rudolf Steiner, The Mission of Folk-Souls in Connection with Germanic Scandinavian Mythology: Lecture IX

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Lady bathing, ca 1900

 Artist: Andreas Bloch (1860-1917)

National Library of Norway