Edvard Munch . Belvedere . Vienna

Belvedere in Vienna has a painting from Edvard Munch 1907, Henk painted the above in his memory.

The wording to the painting

“Summer 1907, Munch traveled to Warnemünde, a resort on the Baltic Sea, for a period of convalescence. He rented a small fisherman's cottage not far from the sea, where he discovered a new subject. For the first time, the Norwegian artist focused his attention on the naked male body. The following year, he painted two men on the beach in a frontal pose, while a third plunges into the waves in the background. This version was intended for an exhibition at Kunstsalon Clemen in Hamburg, but it never left the gallery cellar: “People are still not used to seeing naked men,” the collector Gustav Schiefler wrote to Munch. Works by the Norwegian painter were shown at the Vienna Secession in 1904.”