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Edvard Munch, Engl. ed. - Theme and Variation. Catalog of the exhibition at the Albertina Wien, 2003

English · Hardback

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Loneliness, jealousy, love, death. Hardly any other artist has explored the basic experiences of human life and personal angst more forcefully and with such unsettling images as the Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch. His depiction of the crisis of the individual makes Munch a representative of modern consciousness, and the form he uses to express this inner drama makes him a precursor and founder of Expressionism. Munch's entire creative period is characterized by a continuous return to his central motifs.On the basis of more than 70 paintings and 140 works on paper shown at the exhibition, this Albertina publication contains essays by well-known authors in the field, and for the first time provides an analysis of the emergence, development and inner fabric of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre. Different versions and renditions of paintings like The Scream, Melancholy, Jealousy - all icons of Modernism - are presented side by side. Additionally, the book shows the close relationship between the artist's graphic and painterly works, for Munch's interest in a motif was not only restrained to painting. He also transformed his themes into printed media such as lithographs, etchings and woodcuts, all impressively documented in this book.

About the author

Edvard Munch, geb. am 12. Dezember 1863 in Løten, Hedmark, Norwegen, gest. am 23. Januar 1944 auf Ekely in Oslo, war ein norwegischer Maler und Grafiker. Munch gilt als Bahnbrecher für die expressionistische Richtung in der Malerei der Moderne. In Deutschland und Mitteleuropa genoss er früh den Ruf eines Epoche machenden Neuschöpfers, und heute sind seine Eigenart und sein Status schon längst im übrigen Europa und in der Welt anerkannt. Am bekanntesten sind die Werke Munchs aus den 1890er Jahren.

Klaus Albrecht Schröder studierte Kunstgeschichte in Wien; von 1988 bis 1999 Direktor des Wiener Kunstforums; seit 1996 Präsident der Interessensgemeinschaft österreichischer Museen und Ausstellungshäuser (IMA); seit 1999 Direktor der Albertina, Wien. Herausgeber und Verfasser zahlreicher Publikationen und Beiträge zur österreichischen und internationalen Kunstgeschichte, Kunstsoziologie und Ästhetik.

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Authors Edvard Munch
Assisted by Antonia Hoerschelmann (Editor), Klaus Albrecht Schröder (Editor)
Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2003
 
EAN 9783775712705
ISBN 978-3-7757-1270-5
No. of pages 366
Dimensions 254 mm x 296 mm x 37 mm
Weight 2362 g
Illustrations w. 36 b&w and 315 col. ill.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts

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