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Edvard Munch in Germany
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Time: 28 minutes;
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens, Department of Art, University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-0362, U.S.A. E-mail: ballast@netins.net
Munch, a turn-of-the-century Norwegian painter who is known for his
angst-ridden paintings, such as The Scream and Puberty, was the uncle of
modern Expressionism, if Vincent Van Gogh was its father. This film is
limited to the period of about 1899-1908, when he lived and worked in
Germany (Hamburg, Weimar, Berlin), at the end of which he suffered a
terrible mental collapse. The film's narration, derived from his
journals and letters, discusses in detail his interest in the writings
of Friedrich Nietzche (with shots in Nietzche's sister's home), his
apparent bipolar mood disorder, his alcoholism, and his relationships
with other artists, among them the playwright August Strindberg and the
architect Henry Van de Velde. (Reprinted by permission from Ballast
Quarterly Review 15, No. 4, Summer 2000.)
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