Park in Kösen

Park in Kösen by Edvard Munch

Medium

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions

70,5 × 81 cm

Classification

Gemälde

Department

Belvedere Collection

Museum

Belvedere

Credit

Belvedere, Vienna

Accession Number

1858

About this artwork

Dargestellt ist der Kurpark von Bad Kösen bei Naumburg an der Saale. Munch war 1906-07 zur Heilung seines Nervenleidens in Bad Kösen zur Kur.

About the Artist

Edvard Munch · 18631944

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...

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