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Harry Kluge, Landscape with Windmill - Oil Painting

1920 - 1940
Sold 22 February 2025 · Brave Fine Art
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This mid-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Harry Kluge (1879-1963) depicts a windmill in a river landscape. Kluge was an accomplished painter of maritime scenes and buildings.

Dormant and architecturally enchanting, it stands like an imperious spectre. From our lowly viewpoint, we’re looking up towards its towering presence. The angles have been carefully studied with the addition of a distant sunlit building to enhance the sense of perspective.

Kluge had a fascination for unlikely beauty. Primarily known as a maritime painter, in his ‘spare time’, he tracked down interesting old structures and dilapidated back streets. His canny brushwork emphasised the diverse nature of the textures he encountered - worn timber has never been so captivating.

When in these solitary moments, tucked away from sight, he painted little else but architecture. There’s never a soul present, just the artist, the environment, and his tireless ambition to capture it all.

Alongside his works in oil, he was employed as an underglaze painter in the workshop at Bing & Grøndahl, the porcelain manufacturer.

Signed/dated in the lower right and held within a later frame.

Learn more about Harry Kluge in our directory.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Overall size: 39½” x 27½” / 100cm x 70cm

Year of creation: 1934

Labels & Inscriptions: Copenhagen supplier's label.

Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Condition: Cleaned. Frame in excellent condition.

Artist’s auction maximum: £6,156 for ‘Den kejserliga yachten, The Polar Star, i Köpenhamns hamn (1912)’, Oil on canvas, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015.

Our reference: BRV1953

Date of Manufacture

Brave Fine Art has dated this Harry Kluge Oil Painting to the 1930s.

Physical Dimensions
Height
70cm (27.56")
Width
100cm (39.37")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Reference
SA1101788
Description
This mid-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Harry Kluge (1879-1963) depicts a windmill in a river landscape. Kluge was an accomplished painter of maritime scenes and buildings.

Dormant and architecturally enchanting, it stands like an imperious spectre. From our lowly viewpoint, we’re looking up towards its towering presence.

“
The angles have been carefully studied with the addition of a distant sunlit building to enhance the sense of perspective.
Brave Fine Art
fig 1. A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
fig 1. Harry Kluge, Landscape with Windmill - Oil Painting

Kluge had a fascination for unlikely beauty. Primarily known as a maritime painter, in his ‘spare time’, he tracked down interesting old structures and dilapidated back streets. His canny brushwork emphasised the diverse nature of the textures he encountered - worn timber has never been so captivating.

fig 2. A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
fig 2. Harry Kluge, Landscape with Windmill - Oil Painting

When in these solitary moments, tucked away from sight, he painted little else but architecture. There’s never a soul present, just the artist, the environment, and his tireless ambition to capture it all.

fig 3. A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
fig 3. Harry Kluge, Landscape with Windmill - Oil Painting

Alongside his works in oil, he was employed as an underglaze painter in the workshop at Bing & Grøndahl, the porcelain manufacturer.

Signed/dated in the lower right and held within a later frame.

Learn more about Harry Kluge in our directory.

fig 4. A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
fig 4. Harry Kluge, Landscape with Windmill - Oil Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas

Overall size: 39½” x 27½” / 100cm x 70cm

Year of creation: 1934

Labels & Inscriptions: Copenhagen supplier's label.

Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Condition: Cleaned. Frame in excellent condition.

Artist’s auction maximum: £6,156 for ‘Den kejserliga yachten, The Polar Star, i Köpenhamns hamn (1912)’, Oil on canvas, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015.

Our reference: BRV1953

Date of Manufacture

Brave Fine Art has dated this Harry Kluge Oil Painting to the 1930s.

Height
70cm (27.56")
Width
100cm (39.37")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Ref
SA1101788
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A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
Harry Kluge, Landscape With Windmill - Oil Painting
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A framed oil painting depicting a rustic wooden windmill in a pastoral landscape under a blue sky.
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  • ObjectPaintings
  • Period1920 - 1940
  • StyleTraditional
  • Material[Canvas, Oil Paint, Wood]
  • ColourMulti-colour
  • MotifsWindmill structure, Pastoral landscape, Cloudy sky, Earthy palette
  • SizeH 70 cm (28 in) x W 100 cm (39 in) x D 5 cm (2 in)

Traditional landscape oil painting focuses on capturing natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and man-made structures like windmills with careful attention to light, shadow, and atmospheric perspective using slow-drying oil pigments on canvas.

Classic oil paintings typically utilise ground mineral and organic pigments suspended in drying oils such as linseed, applied to stretched woven canvas or wooden panels using various brushwork techniques and varnished for protection.

Authentic antique oil paintings are identified by examining canvas ageing, stretcher frame construction, pigment oxidation, artist signatures or stamps, framing materials, and craquelure patterns visible under magnification.

A framed landscape oil painting can be styled by hanging it as a focal point above a mantelpiece, console table, or within a gallery wall arrangement, allowing adequate ambient lighting to highlight the textured brushwork.

Antique oil paintings should be kept out of direct sunlight, away from extreme temperature and humidity fluctuations, and periodically dusted with a soft, dry brush while avoiding liquid cleaners and harsh chemicals.
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