Strindberg, Schönberg, Munch, Nordische Moderne in Schönbergs Wien um 1900, [Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien, 25.09.2008-18.01.2009]

1. Auflage

9783902012110 heftet

Wien, Arnold Schönberg Center, 2008

Multiple languages

229 sider, illustrert, portretter, figurer, plansjer (hovedsakelig kolorert), 30 centimeter

069"9.2008-1.2009"M92

Edvard Munch: Writings / Edvard Munch: Schriften, side 41-46

069

TIND no

Catalogue of an exhibit in Vienna, which focuses on the influence of Nordic art on the art and music of Schoenberg and his circle. Texts are in English and German. Includes writings by the subjects of the exhibition, and essays from others.Involvement with the art of Strindberg, Schönberg and Munch opens up the breadths and abysses of the soul; the art bespeaks extreme mental states, loneliness, fear, illness and experiences of death, combined with ghosts, vampires and other visions. The three artists created their works out of “inner necessity” by (in Strindberg’s words) “approximately copying Nature, especially imitating its way of creating,” or (in Schönberg’s words) “expressing themselves directly” or (in Munch’s words) “because of the need to experiment, develop and improve.” They distrusted superficial perception and turned their gaze inward to grasp the intangible values of the subjective world. The present catalogue is an attempt at detecting and presenting the affinities among the forms of expression in music, painting and writing, as well as tracing the intellectual kinship of the influential cultural milieus in Vienna and Northern Europe in the years surrounding 1900.

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