1915, Edvard Munch, Winter Landscape -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Edvard Munch was one of the most influential protagonists of modernism. His work looms like a mountain saddle between Symbolism and Expressionism, testifying to his life-long engagement with the key issues of human existence. Munch primarily devoted himself to the subject of winter landscapes in Kragere, having returned to Norway in 1909 after his mental breakdown and stay at a hospital in Copenhagen. The landscape panoramas of the fissured, austere fjord landscapes are diametrically opposed to his "landscapes of the soul" painted around the turn of the century. The vast expanses of snow are augmented by richly nuanced shades by which the artist creates a contrast to the rocks and strips of meadow; his palette is bright, and the impasto brushwork results in amorphous landscape elements, with the individual shapes of colour blending into one another to form a metamorphosing whole.
1915, Edvard Munch, Winter Landscape -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Edvard Munch was one of the most influential protagonists of modernism. His work looms like a mountain saddle between Symbolism and Expressionism, testifying to his life-long engagement with the key issues of human existence. Munch primarily devoted himself to the subject of winter landscapes in Kragere, having returned to Norway in 1909 after his mental breakdown and stay at a hospital in Copenhagen. The landscape panoramas of the fissured, austere fjord landscapes are diametrically opposed to his "landscapes of the soul" painted around the turn of the century. The vast expanses of snow are augmented by richly nuanced shades by which the artist creates a contrast to the rocks and strips of meadow; his palette is bright, and the impasto brushwork results in amorphous landscape elements, with the individual shapes of colour blending into one another to form a metamorphosing whole.