Vesterheim History & Culture | Rosemaling-Roser, Liljer og Blues (Roses, Lilies and Blues) Folk Art, Folk Music and the Romantic Era by Nils Georg Brekke

A shooting script for an up-coming film, this beautiful book of full-page, color photographs outlines the movie’s story of two young brothers in 1782, who travel from farm to farm to earn money as rose painters in the fjord districts on the West Coast of Norway. In an appendix there is a short survey of the folk paintings from Dalarna and Southern Sweden. Norwegian text, spiral-bound, softcover.