Scandinavian Flavour on the Musée d’Orsay | EUROtoday

Continuing its Exploration of Scandinavian Painting, The Musée d’Orsay is presenting a retrospective devoteed to the Norwegian Painter Christian Krohg Whose Work could be very common within the Nordic Countries however Almost Unknown Elsewher.

Following exhibitions on Edvard Munch in 2022 and Harriet Backer Last Year, The Museum of Orsay Completes A Trilogy Devoted To Norwegian Art With the Exhibition ‘Christian Krohg (1852-1925) People from the North’ Highlighting Krohg’s Links with the Political and Social Struggles of His Time. He was an artist who positioned emotion on the coronary heart of his work, portray with nice empathy for his topics. Munch Even Said of Him That He was “The Only Painter Able to Come Down from His Throne and feel sincere compassion for Hi Models”.

Through a Panorama of Krohg’s Artistic Career, The Exhibition Reveals A Writer and Journalist, A Humanist and Altruist, Who Sought to Raise Awareness of the Plight of the People and the Great Causes of His Time: Working Conditions, Poverty, Famine, Public Health and the Status of Women. The exhibition additionally explores krohg’s relations to his friends, Particularly During His Stays in Paris, and His Search for Immosphere that locations his work on the crossroads of modernity, Between Naturalism and Impressionism

March 25 to July 27

www.musee-orsay.fr

From France Today Magazine