Painting Major Munch exhibition in Glasgow The Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, part of the University of Glasgow, will show some of Edvard Munch's finest prints from 12 June 2009. + More |
Painting The history of a painting... London is the home of hundreds of museum, most of which contain at least one little treasure. For instance, did you know that a painting by Adolph Tidemand, one of the most important artists from the Norwegian romantic nationalism period in the 19th century, hangs in a London museum that has several captivating stories to tell? + More |
Graphic Arts Graphic Arts Graphic art did not develop in Norway until 1895, when Edvard Munch began to use various techniques, including wood-print, etching and lithography. His work was not immediately recognised in Norway due to the fact that he lived overseas, ... + More |
Romanticism Norwegian romanticism
When Dresden lost its significance as the spiritual centre of Germany during the 1830s, the Norwegian artists following J C Dahl found their new centre in Düsseldorf. This generation, ‘the Düsseldorfers’, made painting accessible to the ... + More |
Realism Norwegian realism
For a few years in the late 1870s Munich briefly became the base of a group of young Norwegian artists who were to make an important contribution as Realists – these included Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913), Kitty L Kielland (1843-1924), ... + More |
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