Picture "Woman in a Red Dress (Street in Asgardstrand)" (1902/03), framed
Picture "Woman in a Red Dress (Street in Asgardstrand)" (1902/03), framed
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Picture "Woman in a Red Dress (Street in Asgardstrand)" (1902/03), framed
Edvard Munch: Picture "Village Street in Asgardstrand" (1902), framed
Munch's family owned a holiday home in the small town of Asgardstrand by the Oslo Fjord, where the painter (1863-1944) spent his summers. When he was 35 years old, he bought his own property, which remained his refuge until he was old. Even after he had already become Scandinavia's most important painter and his works were fetching prices that enabled him to acquire a large estate in Erkely near Oslo, he regularly returned to his small fisherman's house to live and work there.
The importance of Asgardstrand for Munch's art cannot be underestimated. The changing light at all times of the day and the lush colours he found there still influenced his palette in the landscape paintings of his later works. Pictures such as "Woman in a Red Dress (Street in Asgardstrand)" show a Munch who created works of simple, great beauty alongside his famous masterpieces that explored and dissected the human psyche. Yet these works are no less groundbreaking than his psychological studies - in colouring and composition, Munch was already anticipating Expressionism here, too.
Original: 1902/03, oil on canvas, 60 x 75.5 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process and stretched on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered and signed, with certificate. Framed in handmade, white-golden solid wood frame. Size 55 x 69 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
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About Edvard Munch
1863-1944
The Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch was one of the most important pioneers of Expressionism. His works revolve around the great human tragedies between Eros and death and he faced the deepest human feelings relentlessly and forcefully.
The oppressive mood of his most famous work, "The Scream", was typical of Munch, whose art often dealt with the existential questions of life, primarily fear, despair, melancholy, grief, death, love and jealousy. In this sombre choice of themes, one can certainly find references to his biography: Munch lost his mother and sister at an early age and struggled with depression and alcoholism throughout his life. Like hardly any other artist, Munch was able to give expression to his state of mind and to impressively bring the emotionally strong themes onto the canvas. Although he painted representationally, he made his motifs appear peculiarly deformed and used a very dynamic painting style with powerful colours. His innovative pictorial language and his way of symbolically depicting states of mind made Edvard Munch a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th-centuries.
In the summer of 2004, Munch's two most famous paintings, "The Scream" and "Madonna", were stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in the most spectacular art theft of our time. The paintings were not secured until August 2006. "The Scream" - the world's best-known work of Expressionism - was so badly damaged in the process that it could not be exhibited again until today.
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Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists attempted to advance to the primal elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas and with the emphasis on the line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among the sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.