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EDVARD MUNCH - Paintings from Norway
extended until February 2, 2005
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Edvard Munch’s importance for 20th century art can’t be valued high enough. It can be compared only to that of Vincent van Gogh or Paul Gauguin. Essential tendencies of modern painting up to the present have their origins in the great Norwegian’s work. Munch transformed basic human emotions into ageless paintings whose intensity still touches us, even after all those years.
The artist was born in 1863 and for long years he worked in France and Germany, before finally returning to his Norwegian home after a nervous breakdown in 1909.  From this time until he died in 1944, he lived close to the sea, or to the Oslo-Fjord and its coast with the dense forests. In contrast to the constant changes of place and the tragic love affairs which marked the previous decades, Munch here finds the peace to stay in one place for a longer period and to concentrate on his art.
In 1916 he bought the large farm Ekely (Protected by oaks) west of Kristiania (Oslo). It is here where he spends most of the 28 years until his death. The villa is surrounded by a park-like estate and offers a wide view of the landscape. In contrast to the often dramatic or melancholy mood of earlier paintings, the works created at Ekely are marked by bright colours, a light touch of the brush and motifs directly taken from his immediate surroundings.
 The exhibition shows a representative selection of paintings of the buildings, the fruit plantations as well as the surrounding woods and fields through all seasons of the year. Fascinated by the clarity of the Nordic winter night Munch creates a series of seemingly magic views of the starlit landscape deeply covered in snow. Besides models, friends and self portraits he frequently paints farmers working their fields. However, also the great subjects of former years keep a grip on the painter: New versions of legendary paintings like »The sick child«, »Ashes« or »Woman in three stages« return to the Frieze of Life, which made Edvard Munch an internationally praised as well as disputed artist at the turn of the century.
 The 63 oil paintings, selected in cooperation with the Munch-Museum in Oslo, concentrate on the creative phase between 1916 and 1944. For the first time such a number of works from this period is shown in Germany. The Munch-Exhibition, which will be shown exclusively in Emden, offers new perspectives even for connoisseurs.
Edvard Munch – Paintings from Norway:
The exhibition highlight in Northern Germany in Winter 2004/05!
Edvard Munch
1863 Munch is born on December 12, four siblings
1877 Munch’s sister Sophie dies with 15 years of tuberculosis
1884 Contacts with artists and authors of Kristiania (Oslo)
1885, 89-91 Studies in France
1892 Exhibition in Berlin brings a scandal
1893-94 Contact to the author circle »Zum Schwarzen Ferkel« in Berlin
1895-99 Stays in Paris
1902-08 Stays in Berlin, Lübeck, Thüringen and Warnemünde
1908 Nervous breakdown in Copenhagen, stay in a hospital
1909 Final return to Norway, Kragerö
1910 Munch buys a farm in Hvitsten near the Oslo-Fjord
1912 Exhibited at the Sonderbundausstellung in Cologne together with van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne
1916 Munch buys Ekely near Kristiania; Presentation of the wall paintings for the university
1922 Large retrospective in Zurich; Munch supports German artists by buying their works
1927 Large retrospectives in Berlin and Kristiania
1940 German invasion in Norway
1944 Munch dies in Ekely on January 23
KUNSTHALLE IN EMDEN
Stiftung Henri und Eske Nannen und Schenkung Otto van de Loo
Hinter dem Rahmen 13, 26721 Emden
Info telephone 0 49 21 / 97 50 0
Telephone 0 49 21 / 97 50 50
Telefax 0 49 21 / 97 50 55
Homepage www.kunsthalle-emden.de
E-Mail kunsthalle@kunsthalle-emden.de
OPENING HOURS
Tue. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Wed. to Fri. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat., Sun. and holidays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Mo. closed, Dec. 24, 25 and 31 closed
Mo. 27. 12. open
ENRANCE FEES
Adults € 7,-; Reduction € 5,-
Children under 16: free
TICKET SALE AND PACKAGES
Tickets on presale (visit without waiting) at all travel agencies and train stations with
START-KART Connection, Ticketcorner and Ticket Online pre-sales agencies or at
ART CITIES IN EUROPE, www.artcities.de, munch@artcities.de, Tel. 0 75 31 / 9 07 30
Information on Munch packages see info@artcities.de
GUIDED TOURS
Sun. 11.30 a.m., Sun. 3.00 p.m and on arrangement
Guided tour 45 minutes (up to 20 Pers.): € 45,-
Guided tour 90 minutes: (up to 20 Pers.): € 65,-
Guided tours (incl. work in the studio) for school class from 9 a.m.: € 4,- per pupil
Exclusive guided tours outside the opening hours are possible for an additional fee.
Bookings: 0 49 21 / 97 50 70, workdays 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.
AUDIO GUIDE
EVENTS
daily 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Printing workshop at the Munch studio
Art for Kids! for children from 6 years every Sun. 11 a.m. to 11 – 12.30
Painting school party: 3. 10.
Munch-Symposium: 4. – 6. 11.
Workshop print graphics for adults, Sat. 6. 11., 10 a. to 5 p.m.
Bookings 0 49 21 / 97 50 70 (8 – 12 a.m.)
FREE PARKING
Visitors of the Kunsthalle in Emden have 4 hours free parking in the parking lot at the Wasserturm
(please bring your parking ticket!)
CATALOGUE
Ca. 168 pages with 90 colour illustrations, texts by Achim Sommer and Nils Ohlsen; Price at the museum € 24,50
MEDIA CONTACTS
Ilka Erdwiens, Telephone 0 49 21 / 97 50 13 |
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