Public Paintings by Edvard Munch and His Contemporaries

This publication contains papers from the 2013 conference Public Paintings by Edvard Munch and his Contemporaries: Change, Conservation, Challenges. The conference theme drew more than 100 European and American paintings conservators, cultural heritage scientists, collection specialists, art historians and students as well as an archaeologist and an artist. Together they discussed how and why the appearances of these paintings have changed and addressed preservation challenges. 1. Changes of appearance in Munch's 19th-century paintings documented by traditional as well as current examination methods; 2. Munch's commission for the University of Oslo Aula and some aging phenomena in these artworks; 3. The making and condition of the artist s experimental drafts, including analyses of his paint tubes; 4. Past and present conservation campaigns for Munch's public paintings in various countries; 5. Painting materials and degradation in works by Munch and his contemporaries. Contents: Preface by Ole Petter Ottersen; Preface by Stein Olav Henrichsen; Introduction; "Munch's paintings: scientific research in retrospect" - Unn Plahter and Leif Einar Plahter; Part 1 Munch's early paintings in major Norwegian collections: "Edvard Munch's Evening on Karl Johan and its changes of appearance" - Janine Wardius; "Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (1893): notes on technique, materials and condition" - Trond Erik Aslaksby; "Spectral Scream: hyperspectral image acquisition and analysis of a masterpiece" - John Yngve Hardeberg, Sony George, Ferdinand Deger, Ivar Baarstad and Julio Ernesto Hernandez Palacios; "Non-invasive investigation of the materials and painting technique of Puberty (1894), Anxiety (1894) and Vampire (1895) by Edvard Munch" - Francesca Rosi, Laura Cartechini, Aldo…