Scan Magazine | Special Theme | Culture in Norway
Harald Sohlberg, Winter Night in the Mountains, 1914.
Harald Sohlberg, Self Portrait, 1896.
Discover Harald Sohlberg at the Norwegian National Museum This autumn, you can experience the important exhibition Harald Sohlberg – Infinite Landscapes, at the National Museum in Oslo. Sohlberg is one of Norway’s most famous artists alongside Edvard Munch. Displaying some of his most renowned works, this will be a truly unmissable event and a great opportunity to visit the museum before it relocates and expands. The new joint building, planned for opening in 2020, is set to signal the museum’s role as one of Europe’s leading venues for art and culture. By Ingrid Opstad | Photos: MIR / Statsbygg
The National Museum holds, preserves, exhibits, and promotes public knowledge about Norway’s most extensive collections of art, architecture and design. With its current exhibition venues in Oslo, the National Gallery and the National Museum – Architecture, the museum shows permanent exhibitions of works from its own collections as well as temporary exhibitions that incorporate works loaned from elsewhere. 100 | Issue 117 | October 2018
Infinite Landscapes The highly anticipated exhibition at the National Gallery, Harald Sohlberg – Infinite Landscapes, shows the range and ambiguity of Sohlberg’s art. The famous Norwegian painter always used the landscape as his principal theme and focused on parts of Norway that had attracted little interest among other artists of his time. With a mysterious and thoughtprovoking expression, his rich colours ap-
peal to our intuitions and emotions. His paintings show concrete places, but also the scenes of the mind, of thought and eternity. “We expect it to be well received by visitors, and a big success,” says marketing adviser Jøran Pecher.
Norway’s most beloved painting on display The extensive exhibition brings together works from throughout Sohlberg’s career, and it examines his working methods while showing how he developed and implemented his ideas. On display are 60 paintings, along with drawings, sketches, print works and photographs including the artist’s most famous works, such as the iconic Winter Night in the Mountains. The painting was chosen as Norway’s national painting through a vote conducted