Dimensions: 75 x 52 cm
Poster for an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
State of preservation
unframed work
Literature
Schliefer, 142
Woll, 198
Biography
Norwegian painter and printmaker considered one of the forerunners of Expressionism. He studied drawing and painting in Oslo. Thanks to a scholarship from 1889 to 1892, he studied in Paris, where he succumbed to the influence of Post-Impressionist painting. After returning from Paris, he exhibited his works in Oslo. In 1892, Munch's works were shown in Berlin, where they became the cause of an art scandal that helped the painter's career. The artist spent many years in Germany, France and Italy. He was associated with the Symbolists and the Pont-Aven school. He created expressive figural compositions, giving expression in them to erotic obsessions, feelings of loneliness, despondency, fear of illness and death. He contributed to significant developments in the field of printmaking. He was the first to use color graphics on a large scale. The Munch Museum in Oslo opened in 1963, and the artist's works are part of major museum collections around the world.
