Winter in Nordstrand
Original title
Edvard Munch
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- DEP717
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1944. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- Two tall pine trunks with dark, rounded clumps of needles stand in snow in front of a wide blue-black fjord; a strip of white shore runs across the middle, and low hills lie along the far side under a grey sky.
- Image
- 1600 × 1285
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009050
coldlibrary.com/g/009050 - Credit line
- Edvard Munch, Winter in Nordstrand, 1900–01. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009050
Munch is best known for more troubled pictures, but he also painted the Oslo fjord in winter, plainly and with affection; Nordstrand lies on the fjord just south of the city. The pines are reduced to flat shapes and the water to one deep colour, and the result is calm, almost a woodcut made in paint.
