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Edvard Munch, Separation, oil on canvas, 1896
This summer the Munch Museum will exhibit a comprehensive selection of Edvard Munch's main works spanning his whole career as an artist. Munch's oeuvre covers more than 60 years, from his early naturalistic works in the 1880s to his death in 1944. Throughout these years, Munch developed his unique form, while exploring several different styles from Naturalism to Expressionism. The present exhibition features well known works such as Death in the Sick Room, The Voice, Separation, Anxiety, Kiss, Metabolism, Bathing Men, The Death of Marat, Winter in Kragerø, The Girls on the Jetty and Selfportrait between the clock and the bed. The exhibition also presents a pastel version of The Scream.
Edvard Munch, Jealousy II, oil on canvas, 1907
Munch and Ibsen
Edvard Munch, Ibsen at Grand café, oil on canvas, 1908
Occasioned by the centenary of Ibsen's death, the Munch museum presents a separate room devoted to Munch and Ibsen. Literature played an important part in Munch's life, and Henrik Ibsen's (1828-1906) dramas influenced his art in a direct way. One of the rare meetings between the two took place at Munch's controversial Kristiania exhibition in 1895 when Munch accompanied the dramatist through the exhibition rooms. Following Ibsen's death in 1906, he was honoured with performances at the new chamber stage of Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Director Max Reinhardt commissioned Munch to make stage studies for Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, as well as to decorate one of the rooms with a series of paintings. Later, Peer Gynt became the source of inspiration for a large number of imaginative drawings from the artist's hand, and during World War I Ibsen's The Pretenders inspired Munch to create a series of dramatic woodcuts. It also seems evident that Munch identified himself with several of Ibsen's tragic characters.
Read more about Munch and Ibsen
Link to Ibsen.net
Link to Internet exhibition about Munch and Ibsen
Link to Opplev Ibsen
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