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\n\tArt aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo opens a show focused on the artist\u2019s little-known public works from 1923. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tAn exhibition titled \u201cEdvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory\u201d will feature large-scale paintings temporarily relocated to the museum from a manufacturing center for Freia chocolate, for which Munch created the so-called Freia Frieze for the factory\u2019s canteen in the later years of his career. \u201cAt the time, Freia\u2014Norway\u2019s most iconic chocolate brand, both then and now\u2014was seen as a progressive company which prioritised the wellbeing, health and welfare of its employees,\u201d reads an exhibition description at the Munch Museum\u2019s website. \u201cTwo thirds of Freia\u2019s staff were women, and the exhibition highlights women\u2019s campaign for rights, as both employees and human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a statement, Ana Mar\u00eda Bresciani, who curated the exhibition, said, \u201cThe Frieze and the history of the Freia chocolate factory offer a unique lens to examine the intersections of art, industry, and gender in interwar Norway. \u201cMunch pursued alternative, moveable, and non-monumental forms. The Freia commission exemplifies this and challenged the boundaries between public and private art.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported by Artnet News<\/em>, the paintings in the Freia Frieze\u2014which will go on view May 21 and remain at the museum through November 10\u2014depict \u201csummer life in a Norwegian coastal town with Munch presenting scenes of work and play in loose and rapid brushstrokes. It\u2019s a quotidian type of utopia: workers strain to gather fruit, fishermen amble towards boats, and people idle pensively by the shoreline in canvases washed over by the pale blue light of endless summer days.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAlong with the paintings, the show will include related sketches and other works from the Munch Museum\u2019s collections that \u201cillustrate his fascination with workers, women, and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/munch-paintings-chocolate-factory-1234782458\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/girls-watering-flowers.jpg?w=1024″] Art aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo opens a show focused on the artist\u2019s little-known public works from 1923. \u00a0 An exhibition titled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1900965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}