Edvard Munch: Prints
Venue: National Gallery of Ireland
Date: 19 September - 6 December 2009
This exhibition from the Munch Museum in Oslo is dedicated to prints by Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Featuring 41 of the finest prints spanning his career,
the works have been specially chosen to illustrate his development as a graphic artist. Edvard Munch, Norway’s greatest artist, was enormously influential internationally. Munch’s earliest works were Impressionist in style, but
he achieved an artistic breakthrough, and notoriety, with his painting The Sick Child (1886). This was the first of many works that explore human, psychological suffering, reflecting his own painful childhood experiences as well as encapsulating ideas about love promoted by his Bohemian friends in Oslo. Munch was an artist who continually pondered, revised and repeated his images,
and the prints are frequently the finest and most powerful versions of his subjects.
His large woodcuts, printed in colour using an innovative technique, were an important influence on German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue written by Peter Black of the Hunterian Art Gallery and Magne Bruteig of the Munch Museum, Oslo.
Print Gallery.
Tickets & Information:
€5 Full price / €3 Concessions
Admission is FREE all day Monday
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Tickets available on the day from the Information Desk in the Millennium Wing, Clare Street, Dublin 2
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