7 results within Institution The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
A woman is seated on the hindmost pew of the church and turns toward the entryway, where the baptismal procession is coming closer. It is first upon closer scrutiny that the viewer discovers a man standing by the door, as well as two other women to the ve…
The Scream is the most renowned and reproduced of all of Edvard Munch’s pictures. With its expressive colours, sinuous lines, and arresting totality, The Scream has proven to have universal appeal.
A snow-covered mountain massif rises up toward a dark, starry sky in the blue light of winter. The cold, mystical mountain peaks lie far off in the distance: a cross has been superimposed upon one of the peaks, heightening the sense of the sacredness of n…
Madonna is one of Edvard Munch’s most important and well-known paintings, and was a centrepiece of his Frieze of Life series. Munch made several alternative versions of the painting, whose original title was Kvinne som elsker (Woman Making Love) and whose…
Johan Christian Dahl relocated permanently to Dresden after his journey to Italy 1820–21. In the following years he painted several more or less fanciful depictions of Norwegian landscapes, a genre that he had also been successful with during his Copenhag…
Along with artists such as Thorvald Hellesen, Ragnhild Kaarbø, and Charlotte Wankel, Ragnhild Keyser is regarded as one of the foremost Nordic abstract modernists of the 1920s. She was intimately connected with the Paris art scene, where she received cruc…
The dramatic, precipitous, and inaccessible mountain formations along the Northern Norwegian coast impressed Peder Balke during his first lengthy journey to the northern parts of Norway in 1832. In The Mountain Stetind in Fog, the spiky mountain top seems…