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British Museum announces biggest UK exhibition of Munch prints in 45 years
Edvard Munch: love and angst
11 April – 21 July 2019
This April, the British Museum will present a major new exhibition on the work of
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Edvard Munch: love and angst will
focus on Munch’s remarkable and experimental prints – an art form which made his
name and at which he excelled throughout his life – and will examine his unparalleled
ability to depict raw human emotion. It will be the largest exhibition of Munch’s
prints in the UK for 45 years.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Norway’s Munch Museum, and includes nearly
50 prints from their collection, one of the biggest loans of prints the Oslo-based
Museum has given internationally. Displayed alongside important Munch works from
the British Museum collection and other loans from the UK and Europe, the 83
artworks on show will together demonstrate the artist’s skill and creativity in
expressing the feelings and experiences of the human condition – from love and
desire, to jealousy, loneliness, anxiety and grief.
A major highlight of the exhibition will be Munch’s The Scream which is one of
the most iconic images in art history. The British Museum will display a rare lithograph
in black and white which Munch created following a painted version and two drawings
of the image. It was this black and white print which was disseminated widely during
his lifetime and made him famous. Few copies survive and this will be the first time
any version of The Scream will have been on show in the UK for a decade.
Other highlights of the exhibition include the eerie but remarkable Vampire II which is
generally considered to be one of his most elaborate and technically accomplished
prints; the controversial Madonna, an erotic image which features an explicit depiction
of swimming sperm and a foetus and provoked outrage at the time; and Head by
Head which is a stunning print representing the complex relationship between human
beings. All three of these prints will be displayed alongside their original matrix (the
physical objects which Munch used to transfer ink onto paper) which have never
been seen in the UK before. Matrices are usually lost, but Munch was determined to
keep control of his. It is rare to be able to show these alongside the prints of such a
famous artist.
The exhibition will also show how Munch’s artistic vision was shaped by the radical
ideas expressed in art, literature, science and theatre in Europe during his lifetime.
His most innovative period of printmaking, between the 1890s and the end of the First
World War, coincided with a great period of societal change in Europe which Munch
experienced through constant travel across the continent on the vast rail network. The
exhibition will pay particular attention to three European cities that had major
influence on him and his printmaking – Kristiania (Oslo), Paris and Berlin. A small
selection of Munch’s personal postcards and maps will be used to give a flavour of
Munch’s journeys.
Edvard Munch is regarded as one the greatest artists of the early 20th century, and
was a pioneer of modern art. Born near Kristiania (today’s Oslo) in 1863, his
childhood was plagued by family death and illness. His later life saw him lead a
bohemian lifestyle and was marked by frequent tumultuous love affairs. Two key
sections of the exhibition demonstrate his passion, but also his fear, of women.
He was deeply influenced by contemporary ideas, thinkers and artists including Max
Klinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Henrik Ibsen and his work would go
on to influence many other artists both during his lifetime and after his death in Oslo in
1944. A number of works by other artists will be displayed here to highlight these
links.
This will be the first exhibition the British Museum has ever dedicated to Munch
and visitors will be able to discover his vast body of remarkable work and the culture
and society that influenced it.
Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum said: “The British Museum is
delighted to be staging this fascinating and challenging exhibition dedicated to the
captivating work of Edvard Munch. We are honoured that the Munch Museum in Oslo
will be sending us one of their biggest international loans of Munch’s prints, which can
be seen alongside a number of key Munch works in the British Museum’s collection.
Together, this survey of Munch’s pioneering art will allow visitors to see why he is
considered one of the greatest artists of all time. We are grateful for the generous
support of AKO Foundation which has enabled us to put on this fascinating show.”
Giulia Bartrum, curator of Edvard Munch: love and angst, said “Munch is
renowned throughout the world thanks to his beautiful printmaking. But the UK is
much less familiar with his prints as they were never collected here as extensively as
elsewhere in Europe and the US. This exhibition will put Munch into context within
the old master tradition and look at the remarkable impact of his prints alongside other
leading printmakers of his period. We hope that the show will lift the veil on the deeply
personal and emotional artworks of the man behind The Scream.”
Nicolai Tangen, founder of AKO Foundation says: "The AKO Foundation was set
up in 2013 to support philanthropic projects within art and education. The sponsorship
of Edvard Munch: love and angst is AKO Foundation's first cooperation with the
British Museum and we very much look forward to more projects with the amazing
British Museum in the years to come."
AKO Foundation
AKO Foundation was set up in 2013 by Nicolai Tangen, CEO and Founder of AKO
Capital, a native Norwegian who lives in the UK. Funded with a total of more than
£150 million, AKO Foundation has already realised a range of exciting projects with a
selection of partners. Previously, the Foundation has partnered with the Courtauld
Institute where it established an academic post for the study of European art of the
20th century, contributed to the redevelopment of the Courtauld buildings, established
the AKO Curator Prize and supported the Egon Schiele exhibition. AKO Foundation
is also instrumental in establishing the new Kunstsilo museum in Kristiansand,
Norway which will become a leading player in modernist Nordic art.
