Winter Night in the Mountains

Sohlberg began to work on the subject in early 1900, after seeing the mountains of Rondane in bluish moonlight while skiing nearby on Easter 1899 or 1900.

He was joined in 1901 by his wife Lilli Rachel Hennum; they remained at Atna until 1902, when they moved further north to Røros Municipality.

The work depicts mountains covered by snow, under a deep blue-black cloudless evening sky.

The foreground is framed by the silhouetted limbs of bare weathered trees, but the work is devoid of any sign of humans or animals.

It was acquired by ship owner and art collector Jørgen Breder Stang [no], who donated to the National Gallery in Oslo in 1918.