Syllabus/achievement requirements

Bischoffs book on Munch and the booklet on the Vigeland park can be bought in the bookshop in the National Gallery

Required reading:

1) Texts printed in compendium avalible at the copi center at Akademika

Please remember student certiticate

Compendium 1:

• From Tunes in a Landscape. Fleskum: a Norwegian Artist¡¯s Colony, Budapest, 2002 (Ina Johannesen: ¡°Tone, Colour, Nuance¡±, pp.106-110, Ingrid Reed Thomsen: ¡°Christian Skredsvig. A Short Biography with emphasis on the Fleskum Period¡±, pp.111-115, Marit Lange: ¡°Harriet Backer and Kitty L. Kielland at Fleskum in the Summer of 1886¡±, pp. 118¨C126) + color plates

• Eggum, Arne: ¡±Edvard Munch A Biographical Background¡± i Edvard Munch The Frieze of Life, London 1993, pp. 15¨C24

• Heller, Reinhold: ¡°Form and Formation of Edvard Munch¡¯s Frieze of Life¡± i Edvard Munch The Frieze of Life, London 1993, pp. 25¡ª37

• Hjelde, Gunnar: Oscarshall, Oslo 1978. English summary, pp. 131-144 + illustrations (in addition, see the internet: kongehuset.no/english (residencies) for latest update.)

• Rosenblum, Robert: Edvard Munch: ¡°Some Changing Contexts¡± I Edvard Munch. Symbols and Images, Washington 1978, pp. 1¡ª10

• Woll, Gerd: ¡±Fifty years of printmaking¡± i Edvard Munch The Complete Graphic Works, London, 2001, pp. 6¡ª29

• Bjerke, ?ivind Storm : Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg : Landscapes of the Mind, 1995. New York : National Academy of Design. pp. 18-48, plates pp. 125, 127, 129, 136, 130, 135, 137.

• Carling, J?rgen and Solveig Broch: The Oslo City Hall : History, Art and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1995. Oslo : Normanns Kunstforlag . pp. 6-15, 24-29.

• Wichstr?m, Anne: "Oda Krohg. A Turn-of-the-Century Nordic Artist" in: Woman's Art journal , Fall 1991/Winter 1992. Vol.12, Nu.1. pp. 3-8.

• Wichstr?m, Anne: "Asta N?rregard: Aspects of Professionalism" in: Woman's Art Journal , Spring/Summer 2002, Vol. 23, Nu.1. pp.3-11.

• Berg, Knut: "Nordic Art at the Turn of the Century" in: Dreams of a Summer Night. Scandinavian Painting at the Turn of the Century, 1986. London. pp.29-39, 66-71 (Harriet Backer), 158-161 (Kitty Kielland)

• Nergaard, Trygve: "Per Krohg 1910 - 1930" in: Per Krohg Bilder 1910 -1930. Kunstnernes Hus Oslo 10.6 - 13.8.1989. 1989. Oslo. pp. 7 - 13, 16-29, 99

• Kluver, Bill, Marti, Julie: KiKi's Paris. Artists and Lovers 1900 - 1930. 1989. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. pp. 26-27 (Christian and Oda), 38-40 (The Matisse Academy, Matisse students), 42, 44,45 (Elvire and Lucy, The golden Couple)

• Moe, Ole Henrik:¡±Entering the 20th Century¡± (pp. 62-81), ¡°The Students of Matisse¡± (pp. 82-87), ¡°The generation of the Thirties (pp. 88-95), in The Song of Norway, Oslo 1990.

Compendium 2:

• Kavli, Guttorm: ¡°Norwegian Architecture ¨C Past and Present¡±, Oslo 1958, 100 pages.

• Norberg-Schultz, Christian: ¡°Modern Norwegian Architecture¡±, Oslo 1986, 86 pages

Compendium 3:

• Malmanger, Magne: One Hundred Years of Norwegian Painting, 1988. Oslo : Nasjonalgalleriet. pp. 5-127.

• Malmanger, Magne: ¡±The Flight of Time and the Unique Event. Adolph Tidemand in Search of the Norwegian People¡± in: Der aander en tindrende Sommerluft varmt over Hardangerfjords Vande... Tidemand & Gude [Exhibition catalogue] , 2003. Oslo : Nasjonalgalleriet . pp. 194-201; ill. pp. 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

• Ydstie, Ingebj?rg: ¡±Thundering Waterfalls and Mighty Cascades. The Waterfall from Typology to Topology¡± in: Levande vatn. Fossen som natur og symbol [Living Water. The Waterfall as Nature and Symbol], 1999. Baroniet Rosendal . pp. 38-52; ill. pp. 26, 27.

• Wichstr?m, Anne: ¡°At Century¡¯s End: Harriet Backer, Kitty Kielland, Asta N?rregaard¡±, in At Century¡¯s End: Norwegian Artists and the Figurative Tradition 1880/1990, Norway 1995, pp. 21-43

• Koefoed, Holger: ¡°A Land There is, Lying Near Far-Northern Snow ¡­ Winter Scenes in the Romantic Period ¡±, in Winter Land. Norwegian Visions of Winter, Oslo, 1993 (De norske bokklubbene), pp. 21-29

• Varnedoe, Kirk: Northern Light. Nordic Art at the Turn of the Century, Oslo 1988, pp. 64-67, 142-153, 196-197, 204-207, 218-221, 226-233, 250-255

• Gunnarson, Torsten, ¡°The Northern Wilderness¡±, in Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, New Haven 1998, pp. 79-80, 87-115

• Trygve Nergaard: ¡°Norway¡¯s Attitude Towards Modernism¡±, 1910-1920 (pp. 49-59) + texts on Heiberg (pp. 122-129), Karsten (146-153), P.Krohg (pp. 158-165), Revold (pp. 192-197), S?rensen (pp. 236-243), Thygesen (pp. 244-249), in Scandinavian Modernism, Uddevalla, 1989.

Compendium 4:

• S?rensen, Gunnar: ¡°Artistic Unity and Accord¡± in Gr?nvold, Ulf, Anker, Nils and S?rensen, Gunnar: The City Hall in Oslo, Oslo 2000, pp. 257 ¨C 371.

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2) Book available at Akademika:

• Tone Wikborg: Gustav Vigeland : the artist and his work. Aschehoug 2010, 207 pages

Total amount of pages: approx. 1070

3) Additional reading

• Bischoff, Ulrich: Munch, K?ln, 2000 (95 pp)