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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch , 1863-1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Oslo and under Bonnat in Paris and traveled in Europe. He abandoned impressionism and in the 1890s, from a profound personal sense of isolation, visually examined such primal themes as birth, death, thwarted love, sex,...
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Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg
Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg , 1857-1929, Norwegian dramatist. His plays include Aunt Ulrikke (1883), The Balcony (1894, tr. 1922), and King Midas (1890), a satire on Bjørnson. The Tragedy of Love (1904), probably his best work, deals with love as an uncivilized passion.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , 1880-1938, German expressionist painter and graphic artist. He studied art in Munich and was greatly impressed by the neoimpressionists. Kirchner studied Oceanic and other primitive sculpture at the Dresden Museum of Ethnology in 1904. This art was of great importance for him...
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg , 1843-1907, Norwegian composer. Grieg developed a strongly nationalistic style which made him known as "the Voice of Norway." He received piano lessons from his mother and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Influenced by N. V. Gade , Grieg at first wrote in the idi...
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Scandinavian art and architecture
Scandinavian art and architecture works of art and structures created in the Scandinavian area of Europe.
Early History
The Scandinavian countries are rich in artifacts and objects of archaeological interest dating from the end of the Ice Age through the Bronze Age, the Celtic and Germani...
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woodcut and wood engraving
woodcut and wood engraving prints made from designs cut in relief on wood, in contrast to copper or steel engraving and etching (which are intaglio ). The term woodcutting is loosely included within the wood-engraving process, from which, however, it can be distinguished. Woodcutting, the ol...
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Leland Matthew Goodrich
Leland Matthew Goodrich 1899-1990, American political scientist, b. Lewiston, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1920, and Harvard (M.A., 1921; Ph.D., 1925). He taught political science at Brown Univ. (1922-23, 1926-50) and was professor of international organization and administration at Columbia Univ....
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modern art
modern art art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). Nearly every phase of modern a...
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glass
glass hard substance, usually brittle and transparent, composed chiefly of silicates and an alkali fused at high temperature.
Composition and Properties of Glass
Most glass is a mixture of silica obtained from beds of fine sand or from pulverized sandstone; an alkali to lower the melting ...
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Bergen
Bergen , city (1995 pop. 221,645), capital of Hordaland co., SW Norway, situated on inlets of the North Sea. It is Norway's second largest city and a major shipping center. Formerly a major textile and ship-building center, the city's economy is now mainly service-based, including educational, medic...
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