Stefanie Heckmann, Thomas Köhler, Janina Nentwig — EDVARD MUNCH : Magic of the North
, Hirmer verlag, 2023 Hardcover, 304 pages, ENG. edition, 246 coloured illustrations, NEW, 285 x 225 x 25 mm, . ISBN 9783777442181. In 1892 the Association of Berlin Artists invited the still-unknown Edvard Munch (1863?1944) to an exhibition. The public was shocked by the colourful, sketch-like pictures. The artist enjoyed the furore and moved to the city on the Spree, where he repeatedly sojourned until 1908. Here he learned the techniques for printed graphics and presented for the first time paintings in several continuous series which would become central to his oeuvre. In Berlin, before long, the concept of the ?Magic of the North? (Stefan Zweig) was no longer associated with romantic or naturalistic fjord landscapes, but with Munch?s psychologically concentrated pictorial worlds.
