Knausgård, who is also a trained art historian, selected ca. The exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen will open in time for the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Norway will be featured as this year’s special focus. Sharing his very personal perspective on the oeuvre of the painter Edvard Munch, the celebrated author now presents what is in effect the discovery a previously “unknown” Munch: a surprising selection of works that have never or only rarely been on public view. His six volume autobiographical novel has been among the most hotly debated global literary phenomena of recent years. He is arguably the most important and most widely read Norwegian writer working today: Karl Ove Knausgård. From 12 OCTOBER 2019 to 1 MARCH 2020, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf presents the exhibition "Edvard Munch seen by Karl Ove Knausgård" Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1912, oil on canvas, 123 x 176,5 cm, Munchmuseet, Oslo
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