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Edvard Munch’s art is known for its haunting depictions of deep human emotions. However, his fascination with nature plays an equally important role in his works, which is now being thematised in an exhibition for the first time. “Munch. Life Landscape”, on show at Potsdam’s Museum Barberini from 18 November 2023, is dedicated to the scientific and philosophical influences on his work and explores his oeuvre as a resonance chamber for today’s climate crisis.
On the one hand, Edvard Munch understood nature as a cyclically renewing force; on the other, he saw it as a mirror of his inner turmoil. Munch developed a pantheistic understanding of nature, which he projected onto the Norwegian coasts and forests. The dramatic weather conditions in his paintings take on a surprising poignancy against the backdrop of the current climate crisis.
In Edvard Munch’s time, the understanding of nature changed radically. Under the influence of new discoveries in biology, physics, medicine and geology, nature was no longer perceived as something static and tangible, but as something …
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Image above: Edvard Munch, Summer Night by the Beach, 1902–03, Oil on canvas, 103 × 120 cm, Photo Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
