(Italiano) Edvard Munch a Berlino : “ il grido “

Edvard Munch in Berlin: “the cry”

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) ….


…. is the painter who more than any other anticipates German and northern European
expressionism.
He was born in Norway, but also lived in Paris and Berlin.
In his painting he anticipated all the great themes of  the Expressionism: from anguish to the crisis of ethical and religious values, the human loneliness ….

at the feeling of death, the uncertainty of the future to the dehumanization of a bourgeois society and militarist.


Obsessed with these themes, influenced by Nietzsche philosopher and writer  Strindberg, this artist has been described by some as “livid expressive power.”
The plastic and dramatic evidence of a flamboyant chromatic fully expresses his pessimistic view of society and the world of his time.

 During his stay in the German capital he made many paintings ,

as “Melancholia” ….


…. “The Frieze of Life” …


… “On the street Workers” ….


The most famous work of his Berlin residence is “the cry.”

 
It has become the symbol of the anxieties and worries of an entire century.
The panel shows a bridge crossing, opening in a diagonal from left to right, the two thirds
lower of the space.
A figure dressed in black is painted from mid-thigh in foreground….


Two male figures can be seen on the upper deck, where the diagonal breaks away from the left margin.


To the right of the diagonal a dark hilly landscape in which embeds a lake or a clear sea loch. Above, a sky made up of wavy ribbons of color.
The painting was resoundingly stolen in 1994 and recovered three months later.

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