Signed Hulda Gronneberg oil painting.

Picked this up yesterday, all art sites ask for membership to view auction prices. I find lots of paintings but not prices anywhere. Thoughts? Is a membership worth it if you only look up a couple of things per year? and which site would be best? I have never seen a painting framed with a venting type material on the back. Just shot off these photos real quick. thanks for any input! =)

 

She was a Norwegian landscape painter, 86 would be 1886.
This is in Norwegian, don't speak the language, but since it is related to Dutch I can see if I can make something of it if you like:
https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/Hulda_Grønneberg

 

I did find a few sites and there used to be a way to translate the page but I cannot seem to find it now! Thanks !!

 

oops did find it!

 

This is a free auction value site:
http://www.artvalue.com/home.htm

Do you know if she painted in The Netherlands? This looks very north Dutch, not just the windmill, but also the farmhouse:

 

here is a little bit that I got from the translated site.


Hulda Grønneberg's father came from Denmark, and opened a stone printing in Christiania in 1843. He also worked with photography.

Hulda Grønneberg was a student at JF Eckersberg's Masters School in Christiania in the 1860s and was a student of Hermine Biedermann-Arendtz in Munich in the late 1870s. She regularly traveled in Norway and to Europe, especially Switzerland and Italy.

Grønneberg became known as landscape painters with a wide repertoire of motives, both from Norway and abroad. She was a frequent exhibitor in the 1880s, her perhaps best period. Among the works from this time can be mentioned Fra Grosshesselohe, Munich (1885), which is owned by the National Gallery. The painting from Sandvikselven took part in the Nordic Exhibition in Copenhagen in 1888. Grønneberg was the last time in 1889 at the World Exhibition in Paris.

 

I remember from my Norwegian ancestry that Christiania is the old name of Oslo.

 

I have pondered this myself but can generally find enough information without a subscription by looking at auction sites. Liveauctioneers is a good resource in this regards but I find no listings for her at this time. I had decided that if I was going to subscribe, artprice might be the best one since it seems most comprehensive, though I hear that artnet might be better for European art.

 

This one sold for 5,760 GBP or $10,446.

http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions...ntalist-sale-and-the-scandinavian-sale-l04100

This one sold for 4,000 Norwegian Krone, about $500.
https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/ad.html?finnkode=81001093

 

Thank you both!

$500 and 10,000.. quite a difference!

 

You'd think her work would go for higher prices in Norway, but maybe the auction was too local, the auction house not well known in spite of the site.

You're right. My father still called Oslo Christiania at times.
Nowadays Christiania is better known as the name of a 'freetown' in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

But look at the two paintings.....no comparison to one another....

 

You're right, summer pictures often do better, and the subject matter is very attractive. The painting in Norway would look much brighter and detailed after a good clean.
Wildrose's painting could do well, because of the recognizable and attractive subject, and it is a snowscape, which is more rare.

 

I am partial to snow scenes and houses myself.

 

My parents were friends with a Dutch painter. His snowscapes always cost about twice as much as summer scenes, because as he said "it costs pieces of people" (sounds just as strange in Dutch), meaning his fingers nearly froze off while painting.
My parents had one of his nicest winter paintings, a local village in the snow. My brother has it now, must ask him for a photo.

 

Would LOVE to see it!!

 

Don't think he'd like me showing it. But I have two 'village' paintings by other local painters, one of them his student. I'll see if I can take decent pictures of them.

 

This board is the best. <3