The summer exhibition is extended with one week, the last day is Sunday 3 October.
This year's summer exhibition includes a large selection of Edvard Munch's most famous and important works, among them The Scream and Madonna, but also presents several works that are not usually to be found on the walls of the Munch Museum.
The young artist is represented by a handful of works from the 1880s. In a seperate hall are shown several of the Frieze of Life- motifs, such as Vampire, Kiss and Summer Night. The Voice, from the 1890s. In the following halls works from various periods are exhibited. The large portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche is tied to the artist's sucess in the new century but is also related to the existential investigation into the soul. The many faces of eroticism are among the themes mirrored around the dramatic work The Death of Marat. The final halls contain a varied selection of Munch's later works; landscapes, nudes, portraits and self-portraits. The exhibition also presents Munch as a graphic artist and shows a wide selection of motifs and techniques, and in one of the corridors you can study some of Munch's own photograps.
Munch's oeuvre covers more than 60 years, from the 1880s to his death in 1944. Throughout these years, Munch developed his unique form, while exploring several different styles from Naturalism to Symbolism and Expressionism. Edvard Munch stands out as the most notable representative of the Nordic contribution to Modernism, and is the most prominent Nordic artist on the international scene.
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30.04.2010
Press release 30.04.2010: Summer Exhibition
Press images:
Separation, 1896
Midsummer, 1915
The Wave, 1931
Madonna, 1894. Oil on canvas.
Separation, 1896. Oil on canvas.
The Voice / Summer Night, 1896. Oil on canvas.
The Death of Marat II, 1907. oil on canvas. |
