Edvard Munch Portraits

Alison Smith

ISBN 10: 1855145596 / ISBN 13: 9781855145597

Published by Thames & Hudson Mär 2025, 2025

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Neuware -Edvard Munch Portraits brings together 80 of Munch's most significant portraits, showcasing the wide array of styles, techniques and mediums that he employed. >Edvard Munch Portraits explores the range of portraits Munch created during his lifetime, and by placing his work in the cultural and historical background of his period, provides readers with a greater understanding of the time in which his works were produced. This publication gives deep insight into the artist's family and bohemian social circles, along with his German and Norwegian patrons and the friends who helped establish his reputation. 142 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edvard Munch Portraits
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Mär 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855145596
• ISBN 13: 9781855145597
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 308W x 238H x 21D millimeters 308 millimeters width by 238 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1112 grams

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Synopsis

Portraits by and of Munch offer insight into the vibrant bohemian world of one of the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944), whose 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art’s most acclaimed images and who is widely regarded as one of the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is less known for his portraiture―but his portraits are central to his art and vision. Edvard Munch Portraits, edited by Alison Smith, former chief curator at London’s National Portrait Gallery, brings together more than 60 of Munch’s most significant portraits, showcasing the wide array of styles, techniques and mediums that he employed.
During the course of Munch’s long life, and working in a range of mediums that encompassed painting, drawing and print, he made hundreds of portraits of friends, patrons, models and, above all and unsparingly, himself. This book places his work in the cultural and historical background of his period, providing readers with a greater understanding of the time in which these portraits were produced. This publication offers deep insight into the artist’s family and bohemian social circles, along with his German and Norwegian patrons and the friends who helped establish his reputation.