Edward Munch House Reveals Its Secrets Automatic translate
Archaeologists dig up the backyard of a house in Norway, where Edvard Munch was resting, in search of his personal belongings.
The first thing that the earth opened to the researchers was large drops of cobalt blue, of intense color, then covered with the Kara pipe. Archaeologists literally penetrate the secrets of the great artist, sifting the earth in Nedre Ramme, the summer home of the symbolist artist in southern Norway. Billionaire Petter Olsen, whose family was once Munch’s neighbors, initiated excavations after acquiring the property in 2009.
“We were looking for an open studio, which he had a long time in the past. It disappeared, it just rotted, but we knew for sure that he had a studio outside the house, ”says Olsen, who owned the version of The Scream in pastels, which he sold last year at Sotheby`s auction for $ 120 million. “At Munch, entire walls were erected, instead of a simple easel. My parents saw it with their own eyes and told me about this wonderful studio, where works were scattered everywhere. He did not care to hide them. ”
Now, the artist’s personal belongings are collected at an exhibition in a temporary gallery in the house. The gallery will also host the art exhibition Edward Munch Return to Ramm: 100 years after the capture of Berlin, which will open on September 23. This exhibition will completely repeat the exhibition of paintings by Munch in Berlin in 1913, and is part of Norway’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the artist. It is planned to open a completely restored house and a new museum complex at the end of this year at the Olsen estate Ramme Gaarde, which also includes Nerde Ramm.
“When Munk arrived in this countryside in 1910 in search of refuge, he was very depressed and drank a lot, but his influence on art here was immediate, and was very large,” says art critic Ina Johannesen. “Munch is called the modern“ master of the soul, ”but it was here, in Norway, that he turned his eyes from the inside to the outside, looking for the first time at the landscape, at the light,” she says.
Her team is also looking for something in the house that will help to gain insight into the essence of his work. “Maybe the Self-Portrait with the Yellow Walls was made here in this living room? That would be a miracle. ”
Visitors to the exhibition will be able to fully immerse themselves in the environment of Munch, as the museum will include an exclusive hotel. But all the first finds must first be cataloged and analyzed. Kjartan Fonstelien, head of the archaeological expedition, admits that he is more accustomed to Viking artifacts. “This is the first time we dig up something that belonged to an artist. We use the same methods as for the finds of the Stone Age, but their interpretations are very different. "
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