Edvard Munch – Two Women on the Beach (1898)

Louisiana poster with the work, Two Women on the Beach , (1898), by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, (1863-1944). The poster was published in connection with Louisiana's exhibition, Edvard Munch – painter and photographer, in 1988. The exhibition showed, among other things, how Munch also used photography as a background for his art: Two Women on the Beach is a woodcut on paper - the starting point was a photograph of Munch's aunt and sister.

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In Munch's production, one encounters not least a long series of self-portraits that can be seen as a prolonged self-confrontation. From the seemingly self-confident 23-year-old, to Self-Portrait at 2:15 A.M., where Munch, at the age of 80, painted himself as an old man - with death as a shadow behind him.

In connection with Munch's painted self-portraits, a series of photographs appear. Munch himself spoke of his Fate Photographs - the photographed self-portraits from 1902-08, which both resemble the painted self-portraits and also express the same fateful melancholy: Munch used photography as a tool in his work with the painting, a working method of which the Louisiana exhibition showed many examples.

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.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.