Edvard Munch – Pigerne på broen (1902)

Louisiana poster with the work, Girls on the Bridge, (1902) , by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, (1863-1944), published in connection with Louisiana's exhibition of Munch in 1975. Edvard Munch was and is a central figure in European expressionism around the year 1900.

Munch designed several of his motifs based on human challenges with identity: the relationship to society, to nature and to oneself. Like Kierkegaard and Freud, Munch had a special psychological ability to look inward.

From his own traumatic experiences, Munch developed his own symbolism, and created images that express man's deepest emotional experiences, a highly subjective art, an expressionism in Munch's sense.