"Dorfstraße in Asgardstrand" by Edvard Munch, limited reproduction

Munch's family already owned a holiday home in the small town of Asgardstrand on the Oslofjord, in which the painter (1863-1944) spent his summer. At the age of 35, he acquired his own building, which remained a refuge until old age. Even when he had long been the most important painter of Scandinavia and achieved prices that allowed him to acquire a great good in Erkely near Oslo, he regularly returned to his small fishing house to live and work there. The importance of Asgardstrand for Munch's art should not be underestimated. The light and the lavish colors that he found there at any time of the day still shaped his palette in the landscape pictures of the old -age works. Pictures like "Die Dorfstraße" show a Munch that, in addition to his famous and bridges the human psyche, created work of simple, great beauty. This work is no less groundbreaking than its psychological studies - Munch is already using Expressionism in color and composition.