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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0020786
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Work Title (display):
Ashes I
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1896
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Munch, one of the most noted Norwegian artists, was concerned with the expressive representation of emotions and personal relationships in his work. He was associated with the international development of Symbolism during the 1890s and recognized as a major influence on Expressionism. His early work was conventionally naturalistic; by 1884, he belonged to the avant-garde circle of the painter Christian Krøhg. During stays in Paris between 1889 and1892 Munch was influenced by the symbolists, van Gogh, and, above all, Gauguin; it was during this time that he established his characteristic nervous linear style. An exhibition of more than 50 of Munch's work at the Berlin Kunstlerverein (Artists' Union) in 1892 was so scandalous that it was closed after a week with the repercussions leading to the formation of the Berlin Sezession in 1899. Much of the next ten years was spent in Berlin associating with writers such as Richard Dehmel and August Strindberg and creating works featuring his recurrent themes of sexual awareness, illness, jealousy, and insanity. These intense and disturbing works reflected not only Symbolist preoccupations but Munch's difficulties stemming from his own traumatic childhood during which his mother and sister died and his father nearly went mad. While in Berlin he produced his first prints, with lithographs and woodcuts becoming equally important to his painting. In 1908 he suffered a nervous breakdown and in 1909 he returned permanently to Norway, deliberately abandoning his disturbing themes as part of his recovery. His work became more outgoing, his palette brighter, and his themes more optimistic although his self-portraits retained the earlier intensity. After 1916 Munch became increasingly reclusive and his work regained some of its earlier urgency. He lived at Ekely outside Oslo; when he died he left over 20,000 works to the city. During Munch's lifetime there were many exhibitions of his work in Oslo, Prague, Stockholm, and German cities. (ULAN Accessed 2007-10-22)
Work Worktype:
lithographs
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lithographs
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Work Worktype:
prints (visual works)
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prints (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
prints
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Work Material and Technique (display):
Lithograph in black and white with additions of watercolor on wove paper, laid down on heavyweight wove paper
Work Measurements (display):
29.5 cm (H) x 42.2 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Collection of Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz, Jr.
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
owner
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Clarke, Jay A. Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth. Yale University Press, 2009.
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Clarke, Jay A. Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth. Yale University Press, 2009.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
9780300119503
Image Source Reproduction page number:
101
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
101
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Art Institute of Chicago
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1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© public domain
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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