Kunst og Kultur (Jan 2017)

Munch: A Modern Velázquez?

  • Allison Morehead

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2017-01-02-02
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 100
pp. 6 – 19

Abstract

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This article considers the significance of the art critic William Ritter’s airing of a comparison between Munch and Velázquez in a lengthy text written in the wake of Munch’s major solo exhibition in Prague in 1905. In suggesting that Munch might be a “hospital Velazquez,” Ritter engaged the work of Julius Meier-Graefe and R.A.M. Stevenson, but offered an ambivalent view of the emerging histories of modern art.

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