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Rubbings – neither print nor drawing
Most people are familiar with the very concept of rubbing images onto paper, for example, with tracing details of a coin by first covering it with a sheet of paper and then let the pencil run over it....
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Curators Magne Bruteig and Ute Kuhlemann-Falck from the Munch Museum presents Edvard Munch’s use of rubbings – which are neither drawings nor prints, but historically pre-dates all other printing...
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Self-Portrait on the Glass Veranda
Through his life, Edvard Munch painted several self portraits. Currently, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt is exhibiting Edvard Munch’s “Self-Portrait on the Glass Veranda”, 1930-33 (MM M 446). At the...
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Munch’s “Scream”– the four versions
Four versions of Munch's "Scream" ©Munch-museet/Munch-Ellingsen gruppen/BONO Edvard Munch’s “Scream” is one of the world’s most famous images – a socalled “iconic image”. It has appeared all over the...
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Paintings on Rolls – by Eva Storevik Tveit
The Conservation Project “Paintings on Rolls” started in March 2006 at the Munch Museum. The project encompassed 31 sketches that Munch painted in connection with the decorations for the University...
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Edvard Munch’s “Puberty” 1894. Study of Technique and Conservation. By...
The Munch Museum in Oslo recently opened the Exhibition “Puberty. Summer Exhibition 2012″. As main focal point of this exhibition is Edvard Munch’s Puberty, 1894, a painting that has not been shown to...
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Google Art Project
The Munch Museum cooperates with Google in the digital art presentation called the Google Art Project. Now you can watch several of Edvard Munch’s works from The Munch Museum collection online. Here...
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“English edition of Munch’s texts” by Hilde Bøe
Members of the staff at the Munch museum have – since January 2012 – worked closely with translator Francesca M. Nichols to translate a selection of Edvard Munch’s texts to English. The result – the...
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MM N 46, fol. 1r In order to understand my remarks about how I believed it would be a crime for me to marry I will elucidate the following: my maternal grandmother died of tuberculosis My mother died...
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MM N 505, p. 1 Listen to a reading of the text Ashes During all that time he had in fact forgotten that she was married – Any thought of the Captain had only fleetingly passed him by. – It had in fact...
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