Terms and conditions of use
Towards the forest II
(Mot skogen II)
(1915)
- Medium
- colour woodcut
- Measurements
- 50.6 × 64.8 cm (image) 55.0 × 68.0 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Schiefler 444; Woll 541 iii/iii
- Edition
- 3rd of 3 states
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.r.: Edr Munch
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Filskags k (...illeg.)
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 53 + 67 09 (09 in smaller print) 63 + 72 - Accession Number
- P152-1974
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1974
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Edvard Munch was one of the most innovative European artists making prints in the 1890s and early twentieth century. In his prints, as in his paintings, Munch explored intense human experiences such as attraction, jealousy and anguish. With their rough cutting and pronounced woodgrain textures, his woodcuts introduced a new primitive expressiveness that suited the evocation of raw emotion. In this powerful image, the forest is not so much a representation of nature as a psychological landscape that pervades the lover’s tryst with an air of foreboding and disquiet. Munch’s prints were highly influential for the young generation of German Expressionist artists emerging at the time.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Landscapes Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- back views couples embracing forests (cultural landscapes) simplicity (artistic concept)
- Movements
- Expressionism
