Hans Jaeger III
1943-1944
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lithograph
Dimensions
framed: 77.31 × 64.45 × 2.22 cm (30 7/16 × 25 3/8 × 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Epstein Family Collection
Accession Number
2022.172.18
Art Historical Context
**Hans Jaeger III**, a poignant lithograph by Edvard Munch created between 1943 and 1944, captures the intense gaze of Hans Jaeger, a Norwegian writer, critic, and bohemian who profoundly influenced the young Munch in the 1880s. As a leader of Kristiania's (now Oslo's) bohem circle, Jaeger championed free love, atheism, and artistic rebellion, shaping Munch's exploration of emotional depth and existential themes. This late-career print, made when Munch was in his 80s amid Norway's Nazi occupation, reflects the artist's lifelong fascination with Jaeger's defiant spirit, rendered with stark cont...
About the Artist
Edvard Munch · 1863–1944
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely psychological works made him a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most influential artists of the modern era. His 1893 masterpiece 'The Scream' has become an iconic symbol of existential anxiety. Munch's art was profoundly shaped by personal tragedy—his mother died when he was five, his beloved sister Sophie at fo...