Edvard Munch – Pigerne på Broen - The Girls on the Bridge (1902)

Louisiana poster with the work, Pigerne på Broen - The Girls on the Bridge (1902), by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, (1863-1944), published in connection with Louisiana's exhibition of Munch in 1975. Edvard Munch was and is a central figure in European Expressionism around the year 1900.

Munch designed several of his motifs based on man's challenges with identity: the relationship to society, to nature and to himself. Like Kierkegaard and Freud, Munch had a special psychological ability to look inward.

From his own traumatic experiences, Munch developed his very own symbolism, and created images that express man's deepest emotional experiences, an extremely subjective art, an expressionism in Munch's sense.