Edvard Munchs grafikk i tre nordiske samlinger

Abstract

Summary Edvard Munch's graphic art in three Norwegian collections. The role of private collections in the marketing of an artist's works Edvard Munch, who was already well known as a painter, made his first intaglio prints and lithographs in Berlin in 1894–95, and his first woodcuts during his stay in Paris in 1896. In these early years few people collected his prints, but some of his friends and associates acquired many impressions as gifts or at reasonable prices. In 1902, Munch had settled in Germany once more, and for his reputation as a graphic artist, this year is of vital importance. In Lubeck Dr Max Linde, a wealthy doctor and collector of modern art, became interested in Munch's art, and among other things acquired an almost complete collection of his graphic work. At Dr Linde's, the German lawyer Gustav Schiefler for the first time discovered prints by Munch, and in the course of a few years he published a catalogue of all Munch's prints done before 1907. In 1904, Munch signed a contract with th...