Scandinavian Flavour at the Musée d’Orsay

Continuing its exploration of Scandinavian painting, the Musée d’Orsay is presenting a retrospective devoted to the Norwegian painter Christian Krohg whose work is very popular in the Nordic countries but almost unknown elsewhere.

Following exhibitions on Edvard Munch in 2022 and Harriet Backer last year, the Musée d’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 placed emotion at the heart of his work, painting with great empathy for his subjects. Munch even said of him that he was “the only painter able to come down from his throne and feel sincere compassion for his 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 also explores Krohg’s relationship to his peers, particularly during his stays in Paris, and his search for immediacy that places his work at the crossroads of modernity, between naturalism and impressionism

March 25 to July 27

www.musee-orsay.fr

From France Today Magazine