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    Art + Travel Europe Munch and Oslo
    Art + Travel Europe Munch and Oslo
    Art + Travel Europe Munch and Oslo
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    Art + Travel Europe Munch and Oslo

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    When we think of Edvard Munch, Norway’s best-known artist and the so-called “father of Expressionism” we invariably think of his iconic masterpiece, The Scream. But Munch was an extremely prolific and influential artist who left thousands of other works to the city of Oslo when he died. This book features detailed walking tours of Oslo and Asgardstrand where the artist lived, loved and labored. Readers will discover the sights and stories behind such an iconic work like "The Scream.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuseyon
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781938450228
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      Art + Travel Europe Munch and Oslo - Museyon

      NORWAY

      MUNCH and Oslo

      BY LEA FEINSTEIN

      Lightning flashes across the Oslofjord as a summer squall whips waves into peaks and blackens the sky. As the storm clears, the bay grows calm, opaque as mercury, and the sky tints red, then mauve. The Rådhuset clock tower near the harbor reads ten thirty, and it is still light . . . the end of a long Norwegian summer day. In 1893, Edvard Munch painted The Scream with a sky like this, after a harrowing walk along the nearby Ekeberg Heights. He recorded in his diary that he heard all of nature shriek in anguish. The distress was his own, but his image of the contorted face covering its ears in a tortured landscape remains an icon in our own time.

      Oslo was Munch’s home. He was born in 1863 and moved here a year later, when the city was still known as Kristiana, the capital of a Swedish territory; his life ended here as well, in the occupied Norway of 1944, when he was 80. Though he traveled through European art capitals during the most active years of his career, he always came back to the Oslofjord region every summer for emotional and spiritual refueling. During the years of his travels, the place he called home was Åsgårdstrand—a fishing village and art colony on the coast, about 60 miles southwest of Oslo—where he owned a little house.

      Unlike other artists whose limited output is scattered around the globe in the hands of private collectors and museums, Munch was astonishingly prolific, and a large portion of his life’s work is here in Oslo. When he died, he left it all to the city. It is too much to cover in a day or two, so if you’re a serious fan, give yourself a week, and don’t count on Mondays, when everything is shut tight. A traveler can see the originals of The Scream (1893), Madonna (1893–94), Puberty (1894), and The Sick Child (1885–86), which together catapulted him to fame, but lesser-known and equally startling works are plentiful, including a whole series of stunning self-portraits and hundreds of innovative prints and drawings. Known for his iconic paintings, Munch was perhaps most gifted as a printmaker, and his images are all here—available for casual study or sharp scrutiny.

      TIMELINE

      December 12, 1863

      Edvard Munch

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