This symposium coincides with a major exhibition devoted to Edvard Munch’s innovative prints, "Edvard Munch: Love and Angst", on view at the British Museum until July 21, 2019.

A group of international scholars will discuss the critical influence of Munch’s early years in Kristiania, his interest in travel and the inspirational effect of the cultural avantgarde and new ideas in technology and science on his art and printmaking techniques.

PROGRAM

9:30 Registration

10:00
Welcome
Hartwig Fischer, Director, British Museum

10:05
Introduction
Stein Olav Henrichsen, Director, Munch Museum

10:15
Keynote
Patricia Berman, Wellesley College
'Reading Munch’s Interruptions: Memory, Matter, and the Self'

11:15
Anna Schultz Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
'From Eugène Carrière to Max Klinger: Symbolist printmakers within the orbit of Munch'

11:40
Elin Kittelsen (Oslo)
'A Ticket to Ride: The restless modernity of Munch’s literary universe'

12:00
Questions and discussion

12:30 Lunch (not provided)

14:00
Allison Morehead (Queen’s University)
'Sick Prints'

14:25
Ute Kuhlemann Falck (Munch Museum, Oslo)
'Idea and Reality: Edvard Munch and the Woodcut Technique'

14:45
Questions and final discussion

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information and to register.