This magnet was published for the exhibition "Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death", at the Musée d'Orsay from September 20th, 2022 to January 22nd, 2023.
Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)
Self-portrait with bone (detail), 1895
Lithograph. H. 46,7 ; l. 32 cm
Oslo, collection Gundersen
© Photo The...
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This magnet was published for the exhibition "Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death", at the Musée d'Orsay from September 20th, 2022 to January 22nd, 2023.
Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)
Self-portrait with bone (detail), 1895
Lithograph. H. 46,7 ; l. 32 cm
Oslo, collection Gundersen
© Photo The Gundersen Collection / Th. Widerberg
© Rmn - Grand Palais, Paris 2022
Lithograph printed in black.
"My art has been a self-confession", writes Munch. Throughout his life he scrutinizes his own "I". He tries to understand modern man's emotional life through self-study. And explain it through art.
Munch's self-portraits are like a diary throughout his life. Self-Portrait with Knuckle Arm is the first graphic self-portrait, executed in Berlin in the autumn of 1895. Munch was 31 years old and hung out in the intellectual circle around August Strinberg, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Richard Dehmel and Julius Meier-Graefe, staying at the pub Zum schwarzen Ferkel.
In these years, his pictures revolve around the anxiety and the tension-filled relationship between man and woman.
Self-portrait with knuckle arm is considered one of his most striking and strong self-portraits.
The writing is applied to the stone, and some of the letters are mirrored. The skeletal intestine reminds us of our short earthly life.
Munch had been in poor health since childhood. And his mother and sister Sofie died early. Events that shaped the artist's mind. Munch painted pictures with death-related motifs throughout his life.
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