Ekely
Ekely is an artists' colony in the district of Ullern in Oslo . It is known as the last residence of the painter Edvard Munch , who lived there from 1916 until his death. Munch's house, a villa from the 1870s, was demolished in 1960. Today there are houses with studios for artists on the site, designed by the architect Jens Selmer and built on behalf of the City of Oslo since 1951.
In Munch's time
The property Munch bought in 1916 had been a nursery; it was over 40,000 square feet. Several ancillary buildings had been added to the main house built in the Swiss style in 1897 for city gardener AM Petterson. Munch lived in the house until his death on January 23, 1944. Many pictures from the last decades of his work are based on motifs from Ekely. The garden and the summer house are known from several pictures, the interior design provided the background for many late self-portraits . In the early years, Munch set up his easel in outbuildings as well as in new temporary extensions until he had his permanent winter studio built in 1929, designed by his friend, the architect Henrik Bull . This atelier is the only Munchs Ekely building that still exists today.
After Munch
After Munch's death, the buildings were bought by the city of Oslo. Munch had bequeathed his pictures, drawings, prints and graphics to the city of Oslo, which used his studio as a restoration workshop and magazine until the collection could be moved to the Munch Museum .
It was decided to establish an artists' colony for painters, sculptors, draftsmen and graphic artists on the site. In the 1950s, 44 buildings designed by Jens Selmer were erected. You can live there as an artist, but you don't buy property. The artists Anders Petersen , Otto Eglau , Ralf Tekaat , Per Ung , Thorbjørn Egner , Heinz Friedrich and Uwe Bangert lived in Ekely .
During construction, the city of Oslo decided to demolish the existing residential buildings to make way for parking spaces for visitors to the Munch studio. Few voices were heard that the house should be kept as a memorial to Norway's most famous artist. The winter studio was used for various exhibitions until 1986, after which it was rented to artists. Today it is looked after by a foundation which organized exhibitions there again in 2006. The studio, the garden and the artists' houses have been under monument protection since 1991 .
Web links
- Ekely on snl.no in the norske leksikon store
- Ekely. ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on virtualartnews.com
- Ekely under the registration number 86177 on kulturminnesok.no at Riksantikvaren
- Oslo municipality sier til «dødshus» . 2018-08-20. NRK
- The inconvenient conflicts - Saken om Edvard Munch's Ekely and Bjarne Melgaard's dødshus he is in sin skjebnetime. Riksantikvaren shall be kept to "A House to Die in" for other gang.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alf Nesheim: Ekely for Munch . In: Aftenposten . February 4, 1993, p. 44 (Norwegian, aftenposten.no [accessed March 12, 2014]).
- ↑ Frank Høifødt: Munch i Oslo . NW Damm & Søn AS, Oslo 2002, ISBN 82-496-0161-0 , p. 64-66 (Norwegian, mikromarc.no ).
- ↑ Arne Altern: Tanker omkring et nedrevet hus . In: St. Hallvard (magazine) . Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel , Oslo 1961, p. 5–18 (Norwegian, reteurbs.org ).