Painting  Three men sentenced for the Munch robbery 05/05/2006 :: Three men were found guilty and three were acquitted for the armed robbery of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's paintings "Scream" and "Madonna" from the Munch Museum in Oslo in August 2004. The paintings have not been recovered. + More |
Graphic Arts Graphic Arts Graphic art did not develop in Norway until 1895, when Edvard Munch began to use various techniques, including wood-print, etching and lithography. His work was not immediately recognised in Norway due to the fact that he lived overseas, ... + More |
Romanticism Norwegian romanticism
When Dresden lost its significance as the spiritual centre of Germany during the 1830s, the Norwegian artists following J C Dahl found their new centre in Düsseldorf. This generation, ‘the Düsseldorfers’, made painting accessible to the ... + More |
Realism Norwegian realism
For a few years in the late 1870s Munich briefly became the base of a group of young Norwegian artists who were to make an important contribution as Realists – these included Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913), Kitty L Kielland (1843-1924), ... + More |
Post 1965 Painting post 1965
Not until 1965 did Norwegian artists terminate their close links with the French tradition, paying closer attention to developments in other countries such Britain and the United States. During the late 1960s Håkon Bleken (b1929) and ... + More |
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