{"id":13683,"date":"2019-12-05T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=13683"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:12:31","slug":"edvard-munchs-fotografier-det-experimentella-jaget","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/en\/utstallning\/edvard-munchs-fotografier-det-experimentella-jaget\/","title":{"rendered":"The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch\u2019s Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was one of the first artists to take \u201cselfies.\u201d He pursued photography as an experimental medium and himself as an experimental subject. He explored the dynamics of layered imagery; unexpected areas of blank, disunified, or undefined form; and shadows that replace living bodies. These effects mirrored his formal strategies in painting and graphic works. An amateur, he did not exhibit his photographs. Munch\u2019s photographs have been dated to two periods, 1902 to 1910 and 1927 to the mid-1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Read more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Munch took up photography in 1902, the year in which he and his lover Tulla Larsen ended a long relationship with a pistol shot that mutilated one of the artist\u2019s fingers. This event, and an accelerated career, triggered a period of increasing emotional turmoil that culminated in a rest cure in the private Copenhagen clinic of Dr. Daniel Jacobson in 1908-1909. &nbsp;The second period of activity, from 1927 into the mid-1930s, was bracketed by triumphant retrospective exhibitions in Berlin and Oslo and by a hemorrhage in Munch\u2019s right eye, temporarily impairing his vision. &nbsp;This was also the time that Munch tried his hand at home movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition is produced by&nbsp; The American Scandinavian Foundation\/Scandinavia House, New York in collaboration with Munchmuseet, Oslo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-13555 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-munch-3-800x758.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13555\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edvard Munch paining on the beach in Warnem\u00fcnde, 1907. Photo: Edvard Munch. Munchmuseet, Oslo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-13553 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-munch-2-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13553\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edvard Munch, in glasses, in front of two watercolours, Ekely, ca 1930. Photo: Edvard Munch. Munchmuseet, Oslo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-13551 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-munch-1-800x755.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13551\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Self portrait \u201d\u00e0 la Marat\u201d by the bathtub at dr Jacobsons clinic, Copenhagen, 1908-09. Photo: Edvard Munch. Munchmuseet, Oslo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-medium wp-image-14250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-800x651.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-800x651.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-1536x1250.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-2048x1666.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/e0900dc4-2d57-4553-b7df-239871a17d3a-1200x976.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edvard Munch, <em>Evening<\/em>, 1902, wood cut. The Thiel Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-medium wp-image-14242\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/test-edvard-munk-761x1100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14242\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edvard Munch,<em> Self-portrait<\/em>, 1895, lithography. The Thiel Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was one of the first artists to take \u201cselfies.\u201d He pursued photography as an experimental medium and himself as an experimental subject. 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