Christian Krohg, The People of the North - Exhibition catalogue
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Official catalogue of the exhibition organised by the Musée d'Orsay from 25 March - 27 July 2025, thanks to the exceptional partnership of the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.
After Edvard Munch. A poem of life and love (2022) and Harriet Backer. The Music of Colours (2024), the Musée d'Orsay closes a trilogy...
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Official catalogue of the exhibition organised by the Musée d'Orsay from 25 March - 27 July 2025, thanks to the exceptional partnership of the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.
After Edvard Munch. A poem of life and love (2022) and Harriet Backer. The Music of Colours (2024), the Musée d'Orsay closes a trilogy devoted to Norwegian art at the turn of the 20th century with the exhibition Christian Krohg. The People of the North, presented in spring 2025.
This is the artist's very first retrospective outside Scandinavia, following several exhibitions in Oslo and Lillehammer in 2012, and Copenhagen in 2014. By highlighting Krohg's naturalist and committed works, which are a far cry from the more introspective works of Edvard Munch, the museum is offering a new perspective on Norwegian art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Through an in-depth overview of Krohg's artistic career, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue highlight his modern pictorial style and his humanist commitment. A Bohemian and fervent defender of the political and social causes of his time, Krohg, who was also a writer and journalist, depicted with deep empathy the condition of the Scandinavian people, the dangers of work, poverty and the injustices suffered by women.
Munch, who was his pupil, said of him that he was 'the only painter capable of coming down from his throne and feeling sincere compassion for his models'. Organised in four parts, this book highlights Krohg's links with the French artists he discovered during his stays in Paris - in particular Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and the Impressionists. In his series of sailors, Krohg sought to give his works a sense of immediacy by using unbalanced compositions, bold framing and dynamic postures.
His credo, 'it's all a question of framing', was the foundation of a highly modern artistic approach. As a member of the provocative society of Christiania - the former name of Oslo - Krohg caused controversy and scandal among the bourgeoisie and the artistic elite through his portraits of this bohemian and free milieu, these young artists, writers and intellectuals who met in the capital's cafés and began to challenge the dominant social structure.
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