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    Edvard Munch - The Scream – End of an error
    Edvard Munch - The Scream – End of an error
    Edvard Munch - The Scream – End of an error
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    Edvard Munch - The Scream – End of an error

    By Gerd Presler

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    Errors that determined what was said and written about the great Norwegian over the years and decades. They started with a wrong title for the world-famous work. It is not called “The Scream” at all! And they ended with the ignorance and dismissal of one version of the painting of the Screaming through Nature – perhaps the most important one. It is to be found on its back – and was simply passed over.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJan 23, 2016
    ISBN9783960280989
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      Edvard Munch - The Scream – End of an error - Gerd Presler

      Fig.: Selbstbildnis mit Zigarette, 1895, Woll 382

      Edvard Munch

      The scream – End of an error

      Errors that determined what was said and written about the great Norwegian over the years and decades. They started with a wrong title for the world-famous work. It is not called The Scream at all! And they ended with the ignorance and dismissal of one version of the painting of the Screaming through Nature – perhaps the most important one. It is to be found on its back – and was simply passed over.

      Contents

      1. End of an error I

      2. Edvard Munch, „The Scream" – A painting tells ist story

      3. Where did Edvard Munch hear the screaming [Geschrei] through nature?

      4. 1889/90, The beginning: A sketchbook sheet

      5. 1891, Station 1: The color of the screaming [Geschrei]

      6. 1891, Station 2: The turbulent sky

      7. Around 1892, Station 3: The wave of the screaming

      8. 1893, Station 4: Dragged into the screaming

      9. 1893, Station 5: The unkown face

      10. 1893, Station 6: The timeless cipher of fear

      11. Screaming [Geschrei]: A permanent answer

      12. 1893, 1895, Pictorially dominate: The pastels

      13. An interim report: The smart collector Arthur von Franquet

      14. The unnoticed reverse side of the pastel

      15. 1910, The last version of the screaming

      Documents: The Screaming [Geschrei] – Eighteen poetic texts by Edvard Munch

      16. End of an error II: Scream [Schrei] or Screaming [Geschrei] – that is not the question

      17. Revealing evidence: List and routing slip

      18. Tracking the magical 52

      19. Two collectors request Screaming [Geschrei]

      20. End of an error III: Summary

      21. A final observation

      22. Imprint

      23. Endnotes

      1. End of an error I

      Fig.: Woll 372r

      Fig.: Woll 372v

      Fig.: Woll 372r, detail

      Everything that can be said about a painting such as The Scream by Edvard Munch has been said and written – one would assume. But the contrary is true. Munch died in 1944. The catalogue raisonné of his printed graphic work appeared only in 2001¹, and that of his paintings even not until 2009. The literary estate, which is kept at the Munch Museum in Oslo – most of which has been studied by now after many years of research – has been available to scholars via the Internet since 2010.² In Norwegian – which does not facilitate its access. A number of issues that previously could be settled only insufficiently can now be explained from the sources – that is to say: from Edvard Munch’s own written words. Throughout his life he kept every letter, every scrap of paper, no matter how tiny – in suitcases. That these treasures are now being retrieved changes the situation. Especially in this case: The Scream, that world-famous work which exists in five versions and one lithograph, reveals itself to us anew. Munch circles around his work as a painter, and he circles it in 15 literary-poetic texts, which are made available here for the first time in their entirety – an unexpected discovery.

      Everything began in 1889/90: during an evening walk Munch heard the loud screaming through Nature outside the gates of Kristiania – whatever that may mean. He reached for his pencil and later his pen: the painter and the poet validating what he has experienced. A double source. Today it must serve as the starting point for any interpretation, as the painter and poet is the number one authority on his work.³ Munch commented on his experience on Ljabro Road. We have these sources. And what we are now – finally – able to see: the painter Edvard Munch developed the subject step by step over the course of years until it reached the perfection that is admired the world over today.

      It is an extraordinary story. Retracing it is the purpose of this article. As already mentioned: for a long time written statements by Munch on The Scream were not accessible. Their lack – and this is not meant to apportion blame – resulted in deep-rooted errors. Errors that determined what was said and written about the great Norwegian over the years and decades. They started with a wrong title for the world-famous work. It is not called The Scream at all! And they ended with the ignorance and dismissal of one version of the painting of the Screaming through Nature – perhaps the most important one. It is to be found on its back – and was simply passed over.

      2. Edvard Munch, „The Scream" – A painting tells ist story

      Fig.: Five souvenirs: Button, Flytoget, Uhr, Halloween Mask, Kopfkissen, Briefmarke You can ask people on the six major continents about this painting. "Munch’s Scream is … one of the world’s best known paintings in most recent art history."⁴ Consequently, there was reason to worry when one version was stolen from the

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