Munch Museum quarrel continues
January 17, 2011
They’re not exactly screaming, but the quarreling over a new museum to house the treasures of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was shifting into high gear this week as hearings get underway. Munch’s most famous painting Skriket (The Scream), meanwhile, has once again been saved from ruin. The painting came under threat last month when bitterly [...]
Munch Museum avoids closure
December 16, 2010
Oslo’s popular Munch Museum managed to stay open this week, but has had to remove some of its most famous paintings and close off a main exhibition hall. The reason: Condensation that can damage its precious works by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Many visitors to the museum last weekend were disappointed when they didn’t get [...]
More money for Munch paintings
September 29, 2010
Oslo’s city government has agreed to allocate more funding for conservation of the city’s vast collection of paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The city inherited the paintings when the artist died, and now needs to take care of them. Funding has been an ongoing problem for years, and Japanese investors have often stepped in [...]
New boss for Munch Museum
July 2, 2010
An international search for a new leader of Oslo’s Munch Museum is over. City officials found him in Bergen. Stein Olav Henrichsen, age 56, has most recently been head of Bergen’s Opera and led the merger of Opera Vest and Den Nye Opera. He’s an educated musician and has for many years championed new music [...]
Summertime at The Munch Museum
May 24, 2010
MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and focus every week this spring on a specific museum worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: Summer scenes from Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch, are highlighted in this year’s summer exhibition at The Munch [...]
Munch collection goes on view
April 22, 2010
A unique collection of lithographs by famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has emerged and been put on exhibit at a hotel in the mountains of Norway. The Gundersen Collection is itself collecting impressive reviews. Pål Georg Gundersen, a wealthy real estate investor in southeast Norway, had been quietly collecting Munch lithographs for years. In 2008 [...]
More Japanese funds for Munch
March 24, 2010
Idemitsu Petroleum Norge, a subsidiary of the Japanese energy giant Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd, is once again providing funding to preserve the legacy of famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Idemitsu is donating NOK 4 million to help finance a major Munch jubilee in 2013. The money will be distributed over a four-year period and plans [...]
Munch paintings can’t be moved
March 11, 2010
Nearly 900 of the paintings that Norwegian artist Edvard Munch left to the City of Oslo in his will are in such poor condition that they won’t tolerate a move to a new Munch Museum (photo) to be built on the city’s waterfront. A representative of Munch’s family called the city’s treatment of the paintings [...]
Help wanted: New Munch Museum boss
January 29, 2010
The City of Oslo is launching an international search for a new leader for its new Munch Museum, planned for the eastern waterfront area of the capital under redevelopment at Bjørvika. Head-hunters have been vying for the job. The museum itself remains a target of controversy over its design, with some officials worried it will [...]
More Munch art disappears
November 18, 2009
Another valuable lithograph by famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has been reported stolen in Oslo, but police kept their investigation into the theft secret. Reporters for Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) spotted the loss from well-known Oslo gallery Kaare Berntsen on an international list of stolen artwork. The gallery moved from its longtime location in downtown Oslo [...]
Thieves snatch Munch lithograph
November 13, 2009
Police in Oslo were searching Friday for thieves who smashed a window of a local gallery and made off with only one piece of art: Famed Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s lithograph of one of his murals that adorn the walls of a ceremonial hall at the University of Oslo. The lithograph, called Historien (“The Story”), [...]
New Munch Museum draws a few screams of protest
September 23, 2009
The Oslo City Council’s selection of a Spanish architect’s plan for a new Munch Museum has drawn criticism and now a formal protest, from a rival architect who lost the city’s competition round. Meanwhile, one of Munch’s childhood homes is being refurbished but no firm plans exist for it yet. New York-based architecture firm Rex, [...]
