Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasantly surprised to see Munch's beautiful painting, The Cry, reproduced on your cover. When Munch died in 1944, he left the majority of his life's work, 1,200 paintings, 3,000 drawings and 12,000 graphic works, to the municipality of Oslo, his native city. All of these works are now a part of the Oslo Municipal Art Collection, and are to be housed in a separate building to be known as the Munch Museum. It is now 16 years since Munch's death, and this museum is hardly started...
...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...
...IRELAND COLLINS Oslo...
...Munch's house was indeed demolished, but his studio in the garden was not. Today it is the center of a small artist village built by the city of Oslo and inhabited by many of Norway's leading artists...
...Hell." His own life was a succession of scandalously successful art shows, denounced for their "fever-sick hallucinations," of troubled love affairs, heavy drinking, instability, and finally nervous collapse. He spent the last 30 years of his life in semiseclusion in a large country house on the outskirts of Oslo, painting and refusing to sell his paintings. A few years before his nervous collapse, he painted Self-Portrait with Cigarette, which has been called "a vision of daemonic grandeur, Munch as he thought of himself as seen by the world...