A social realist whose themes spanned controversial topics such as poverty and prostitution, he was a major influence of Edvard Munch, and central to Nordic and northern European art.
Munch
A look back at some of my favourite articles on painters and painting, from Moreau and Salome, to Merson’s tame wolf.
The Norwegian landscape painter who loved his fjords invites Munch to Berlin, and causes a furore. It makes Munch’s career, and changes the history of art.
Strange coincidences build a chain of events. From the Baltic German who painted the coast, to a Norwegian who sold paintings of Norwegian fjords in Germany.
More superb coastal nocturnes by Aivazovsky, Atkinson Grimshaw, Winslow Homer, Edvard Munch, and others.
Known best for his watercolours of his wife and family in their ideal and idyllic Swedish home, his work is far richer and more varied.
An overview, comments on its narrative nature, and indexes to the previous articles about the Frieze.
Last of the four sections in the Frieze, it consists almost entirely of paintings added since the first version. These show episodes from Munch’s own life.
With the love affair over, the Frieze tackles the resulting anxiety, in which the key themes in its first painting are developed in detail.
The second section maintains the botanical metaphor, in which love flowers, and passes. Six superb paintings explain.
The Eclectic Light Company 