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Hege Blom: Arne Kristian Eggum, in: Store norske leksikon, 2005–2007 (Digitalized)
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Arne Kristian Eggum (born August 24, 1936) is a Norwegian art historian who mainly focused his scientific work on Edvard Munch.
From January 1963 until January 1964, Eggum helped prepare the opening of the Munch Museum He got his PhD in art history in 1968 from the University of Oslo with his thesis Studier i norsk kunstteori (‘Studies in Norwegian art theory’). In March 1969, Eggum was appointed as a curator of Oslo municipality’s art collections, The Munch Museum, with an especial responsibility for the painting department. From August 1970 he was permanently employed at the same institution. From 1969 to 70, he was the only art reviewer in the national newspaper Dagbladet.
In February 1972, Arne Eggum was appointed as manager and chief curator of The Munch Museum, and subsequently he was permanently employed in this position.
Eggum also participated in other activities under the auspices of Oslo municipality’s art collections: public guided tours as part of the programme «Know your city», cataloguing and publishing works in «Amaldus Nielsen’s painting collection» in 1973, in «Rolf E. Stenersen’s gift for the city of Oslo» in 1974, and in the «Idea competition on decorating 22 schools in Oslo» in 1973–76. As the manager of a museum, Eggum produced an extensive number of frequently-quoted scientific articles and books, many in connection with international exhibitions. He retired at 65, but since then he has continued to publish articles, e.g. «The Scream as a Vision of Despair», Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2015. Lately he has set forth several theories which may challenge common interpretations of some of Munch’s works of art, through talks with Annelita Meinich on the Norwegian radio programme “Going out in Culture”.
Hege Blom: Arne Kristian Eggum, in: Store norske leksikon, 2005–2007 (Digitalized)
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream (1893), has become an iconic image of the art world.
Munch Museum, marketed as Munch since 2020, is an art museum in Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including The Scream, would go on to have a formative influence on the Expressionist movement.
Madonna is the usual title given to several versions of a composition by the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch showing a bare-breasted half-length female figure created between 1892 and 1895 using oil paint on canvas. He also produced versions in print form.
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, also known as the National Museum, in Oslo is a Norwegian state-owned museum.
The Sick Child is the title given to a group of six paintings and a number of lithographs, drypoints and etchings completed by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch between 1885 and 1926. All record a moment before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie (1862–1877) from tuberculosis at 15. Munch returned to this deeply traumatic event repeatedly in his art, over six completed oil paintings and many studies in various media, over a period of more than 40 years. In the works, Sophie is typically shown on her deathbed accompanied by a dark-haired, grieving woman assumed to be her aunt Karen; the studies often show her in a cropped head shot. In all the painted versions Sophie is sitting in a chair, obviously suffering from pain, propped by a large white pillow, looking towards an ominous curtain likely intended as a symbol of death. She is shown with a haunted expression, clutching hands with a grief-stricken older woman who seems to want to comfort her but whose head is bowed as if she cannot bear to look the younger girl in the eye.
Sigurd Daniel Isaachsen Willoch was a Norwegian art historian and director of the National Gallery of Norway.
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 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.
Rolf Kristian Eckersberg Stenersen was a Norwegian businessman, non-fiction writer, essayist, novelist, playwright and biographer. He was also a track and field athlete and art collector.
Ludvig Karsten was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901, and had his first separate exhibition in 1904. He is represented at museums in many Scandinavian cities, including several paintings at the National Gallery of Norway. Karsten was known for his bohemian lifestyle and quick temper.
Alf Bøe was a Norwegian art historian, educator, curator and author.
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Melancholy is a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch painted multiple variant versions of the expressionist work in oil on canvas during the period 1891–1893. The painting depicts a man with his head resting in his hand in a pensive mood at the edge of a shoreline.
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Model by the Wicker Chair is a 1919–1921 painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that is in the collection of the Munch Museum in Oslo.
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John B. Ravenal is an art historian, writer, and museum curator. Before 1998, he was the Associate Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From 1998 to 2015 he was curator of contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, where he organized exhibitions of Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit (2014); Xu Bing: Tobacco Project(2011), and Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit (2010). He was curator of the VMFA's Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch exhibition, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life. His lecture about the exhibition took place in the Leslie Cheek Theater in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The show opened in November 2016 in partnership with the Munch Museum in Oslo. He is the author of the exhibition catalogue Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Inspiration and Transformation.
The Haugesund Art Gallery stands in the north part of Haugesund with a view of the city park and rose garden. The art museum goes back to the Haugesund Art Society, founded in 1913. The Haugesund Art Gallery's museum was created as a municipal institution in 1973.
Self-Portrait with Cigarette is an 1895 painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch's use of the cigarette and physical decay as a rejection of societal values aroused controversy following the self-portrait's 1895 exhibition. As of 2021, the work is held by the National Gallery in Oslo.
