Illustration showing how the new Munch room might look. Selected works by Edvard Munch Click on a work to explore the museum's rich Edvard Munch collection in detail. The Girls on the Bridge. Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Rue Lafayette. Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu. Vampire II. The Sick Child. The Scream. Munch's biographers have relied on his sometimes conflicting and far from disinterested accounts to reconstruct the tormented relationship.
He first set eyes on Larsen when she arrived at his studio in the company of an artist with whom he shared the space. From the outset, she pursued him aggressively. In his telling, their affair began almost against his will.
He fled—to Berlin, then on a yearlong dash across Europe. She followed. He would refuse to see her, then succumb. He memorialized their relationship in The Dance of Life of , set on midsummer's night in Aasgaardstrand, the seaside village where he once trysted with Millie Thaulow and where, in , he had purchased a tiny cottage. At the center of the picture, a vacant-eyed male character, representing Munch himself, dances with a woman in a red dress probably Millie.
Their eyes do not meet, and their stiff bodies maintain an unhappy distance. To the left, Larsen can be seen, golden-haired and smiling benevolently, in a white dress; on the right, she appears again, this time frowning in a black dress, her countenance as dark as the garment she wears, her eyes downcast in bleak disappointment.
On a green lawn, other couples dance lustfully in what Munch had called that "deranged dance of life"—a dance he dared not join. Larsen longed for Munch to marry her.
His Aasgaardstrand cottage, which is now a house museum, contains the antique wedding chest, made for a bride's trousseau, that she gave him.
Though he wrote that the touch of her "narrow, clammy lips" felt like the kiss of a corpse, he yielded to her imprecations and even went so far as to make a grudging proposal.
Then, when she came to Germany to present him with the necessary papers, he lost them. She insisted that they travel to Nice, as France did not require these documents. Once there, he escaped over the border to Italy and eventually to Berlin in to stage The Frieze of Life exhibition. That summer, Munch returned to his cottage in Aasgaardstrand. He sought peace, but drinking heavily and brawling publicly, he failed to find it. Then after more than a year's absence, Larsen reappeared. He ignored her overtures, until her friends informed him that she was in a suicidal depression and taking large doses of morphine.
He reluctantly agreed to see her. There was a quarrel, and somehow—the full story is unknown—he shot himself with a revolver, losing part of a finger on his left hand and also inflicting on himself a less obvious psychological injury. Prone to exaggerated feelings of persecution—in his painting Golgotha of , for instance, he depicted himself nailed to a cross—Munch magnified the fiasco in his mind, until it assumed an epic scale.
Describing himself in the third person, he wrote, "Everybody stared at him, at his deformed hand. He noticed that those he shared a table with were disgusted by the sight of his monstrosity. In the next few years, his drinking, which had long been excessive, grew uncontrollable.
His Self-portrait with a Bottle of Wine , in which he paints himself alone at a restaurant table, with only a plate, a wine bottle and a glass, testifies to intense disquiet. Two waiters stand behind him in the almost empty restaurant, evoking the setting in which he had read of his father's death. In the fall of , Munch collapsed in Copenhagen. Hearing hallucinatory voices and suffering paralysis on his left side, he was persuaded by his old roommate from the Saint-Cloud apartment, Emanuel Goldstein, to check himself into a private sanitarium on the outskirts of the city.
There he reduced his drinking and regained some mental stability. In May, he departed, vigorous and eager to get back to his easel. Choose Language. Toggling to another language will take you to the matching page or nearest matching page within that selection. Hotels Scandic Hotels — in all major cities from north to south Nordic Choice Hotels — a different hotel company Thon Hotels — with fantastic breakfast Radisson Blu Hotels — discover your favourite destinations Citybox — modern and affordable hotels in a central location.
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Click here to read it in English Close description The world's number one destination for experiencing Edvard Munch's life and art MUNCH's collection, left to the city of Oslo by the artist himself, consists of paintings, graphical prints and drawings. General Discount Free with Oslo Pass. Accommodation Hotel facilities Family-friendly.
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View All Green Travel. Map View Streetview Saturday. TripAdvisor Reviews. MUNCH is billed as more than a museum: it aims to become a social hub for diners, shoppers, gig-goers and swimmers the location proved a magnet for sun-seekers this summer as much as a place to see art.
The new museum will also have the capacity to host touring blockbuster shows. Watch this vast space. The floor new building by the fjord rehomes the Norwegian master's vast bequest of 28, works.
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