{"id":62523,"date":"2025-06-23T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/edvard-munch-in-the-national-museum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:13:06","slug":"edvard-munch-in-the-national-museum","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/edvard-munch-in-the-national-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Edvard Munch in The National Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication.<\/p>\n<p>The first Munch painting acquired by the museum was <em>Night in Nice<\/em>, purchased in 1891. Today the collection encompasses 57 paintings and 186 works on paper. The paintings include masterpieces such <em>as The Sick Child, The Scream, Madonna, The Girls on the Bridge<\/em>, and <em>Man in the Cabbage Field<\/em>. How did the museum come by all these works? And what is the story behind the famous &#8216;Munch Room&#8217;? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in this book, which contains reproductions of all the works in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains texts by Karin Hindsbo, Nils Messel, Sidsel Helliesen, Gerd Woll, Thierry Ford, Mai Britt Guleng, &Oslash;ystein Ustvedt, Wenche Volle and Vibeke Waallann Hansen.<\/p>\n<p>Text in English and Norwegian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication. Reproductions of works in the collection are included in this book. Text in English and Norwegian.<br \/>5 Foreword<br \/>\nKarin Hindsbo<br \/>\n7 Edvard Munch and the National Gallery<br \/>\nNils Messel<br \/>\n25 In the beginning was the picture series.<br \/>\nEdvard Munch&rsquo;s &ldquo;Frieze of Life&rdquo; and the National Gallery<br \/>\nMai Britt Guleng<br \/>\n33 The printmaker and the collection<br \/>\nSidsel Helliesen<br \/>\n45 Conservation histories<br \/>\nThierry Ford<br \/>\n53 Paintings<br \/>\n55 Paintings &ndash; user&#8217;s guide<br \/>\n56 Catalogue 1&ndash;57<br \/>\nVibeke Waallann Hansen (VWH), &Oslash;ystein Ustvedt (&Oslash;U), Wenche Volle (WV)<br \/>\n187 Prints and drawings<br \/>\n189 Prints and drawings &ndash; user&#8217;s guide<br \/>\nSidsel Helliesen<br \/>\n193 Catalogue 58&ndash;243<br \/>\nSidsel Helliesen, Gerd Woll<br \/>\n317 Year by year. Edvard Munch and the National Museum<br \/>\n319 Exhibitions 1883&ndash;2019<br \/>\n323 Bibliography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62523","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-marianne-yvenes","8":"author-edited-by-oystein-utvedt","9":"publisher-national-museum-oslo","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edvard Munch in The National Museum - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/edvard-munch-in-the-national-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edvard Munch in The National Museum - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication. 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