Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatically religious father, Munch grew up in an atmosphere compounded of love, pride and fear. Illness continually interrupted his schooling until, at 17, he went to art school. A few years later he had put on weight and assurance, become the biggest, best and hardest-drinking young painter in Oslo's equivalent of Greenwich Village...
Shortly before he died, Munch told his doctor that his path had "always been along an abyss." Perhaps his lifelong habit of hard, passionate labor was what saved him from going over the edge. He bequeathed no less than 1,008 oils to the city of Oslo, along with wagonloads of drawings, watercolors and engravings. It was a rich and illuminating legacy...
...owned most of his works and left them to Norwegian galleries when he died during the last war, Expect for a few pieces from private collectors, most of the exhibition is loaned from the city of Oslo, the national gallery, and the Gallery of painting at Bergen...