The Scream
Edvard Munch · 1893
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Oslo · Founded 2003
The Scream is here, in the room built for it, with the rest of Munch and the national collection of Norway. Norway’s state collection of art, architecture and design, more than 400,000 works in one museum.
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- 2003
- Founded
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The Scream
Edvard Munch · 1893
The Scream is an art composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik ('Scream'), and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur ('The Scream of Nature').
Dance of Life
Edvard Munch · 1899–1900
The Dance of Life or Life's Dance is an 1899–1900 expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, now in the National Museum of Norway, in Oslo. Olaf Schou purchased the painting in Oslo in 1910, immediately presenting it to the National Gallery.
Puberty
Edvard Munch · 1895
Puberty is an 1894–95 painting created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Puberty has associations with both symbolism and expressionism, the former a movement from which Munch emerged, and the latter a movement in which Munch was pivotal. It is part of an informal series or cycle of paintings, prints, and images known as The Frieze of Life, that Munch created in the 1890s, although he often revisited and explored themes and images from the series throughout his career. The painting was also done as a lithograph and an etching by Munch.
Winter at the Sognefjord
Johan Christian Dahl · 1827
Winter at the Sognefjord is a painting by the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl from 1827. The picture is painted in oil on canvas and has the dimensions of 61.5 x 75.5 cm.
View from Stalheim
Johan Christian Dahl · 1842
View from Stalheim is an 1842 oil painting by Johan Christian Dahl of the mountainous view from Stalheim in Voss Municipality in Søndre Bergenhus county. It is a major work of Romantic nationalism and has become a national icon.
Ashes
Edvard Munch · 1895
Ashes is an oil on canvas painting by the Norwegian symbolist painter Edvard Munch. Painted in 1894–95 it is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo.
Artists
Norway · 1863–1944
Edvard Munch ( MUUNK; Norwegian:; 12 December 1863, 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
Norway · 1788–1857
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, often known as J. Dahl, was a Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting.
Norway · 1814–1876
Adolph Tidemand was a Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne (The Haugeans; 1852) and Brudeferd i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger; 1848), painted in collabora
Norway · 1852–1925
Christian Krohg was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life.
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Papal States · 1593–1653
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio.
Artworks
Stetind in Fog
Peder Balke · 1864
Low Church Devotion
Adolph Tidemand · 1848
The wild Hunt of Odin
Peter Nicolai Arbo · 1872
At the Window
Hans Heyerdahl · 1881
Christening in Tanum Church
Harriet Backer · 1892
Armour
Ragnhild Keyser · 1926
Leiv Eirikson discovering America
Christian Krohg · 1893
Self-portrait
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Madame Manet in the Conservatory
Édouard Manet · 1879
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Hours
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Getting there
Brynjulf Bulls plass 3.
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