Trained in Germany because there was no academy in Norway, he soon developed themes of poverty, social injustice, and Norway’s independence. A major influence on Edvard Munch.
Munch
More paintings from Louis Janmot’s epic Poem of the Soul, Walter Crane’s concise Bridge of Life, and a selection from Edvard Munch’s second Frieze of Life, exhibited in 1902.
To commemorate the centenary of his death. Early work with the Nordic Impressionists in Skagen, a sick girl that influenced Munch, sailors and self-portraits.
Frognerkilen with Oscarshall, a summer night on Fleskum Farm, Kalvøya in the sun, a summer house in Asker, and Munch’s Starry Night.
The Karl Johan in snow and starvation, in the rain, an anxious moment, and in the summer. Industrial buildings on the Akerselven River, skis in Majorstuen, and more views of the city.
Constable and Turner both paint the burning of London’s Parliament, a scene of a prairie fire in the US, a burning castle in Denmark, San Francisco on fire in 1906, and more.
Country folk lured by the promise of material goods and wealth, fine clothes and smart carriages, who end up working in coal mines and struggling to stave off poverty.
The endless other world of chimneys and snow-covered roofs in Paris and other cities. Munch’s growing anxiety culminating in The Scream of angst.
Plague ravaged cities across Europe and much of the world, cholera came from contaminated water supplies, then there were influenza and tuberculosis.
Deathbed scenes of Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, General Wolfe, Marat, Géricault, Camille Monet, and a posthumous portrait that proved the death of Klimt.
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