:12:04
I saw the flaming sky
:12:06
like blood, like a sword
:12:08
over the fjord and the town.
:12:11
My friends continued on.
I stood there shaking in anguish.
:12:16
I felt it like a great
:12:17
endless scream through nature.
:12:23
The German Kaiser visits London,
hoping that Britain will agree
:12:27
to the Triple Alliance
with Austria and Italy.
:12:32
There is civil war in Chile,
:12:34
widespread famine in Russia.
:12:47
Munch now paints and exhibits
a portrait of his sister Inger.
:12:52
Another breakthrough.
Perspective has vanished.
:12:55
Space and surface are one.
:12:58
But this canvas, and his work
known as Despair,
:13:02
with the artist's featureless,
and blank profile,
:13:06
its large disconnected strokes of
heavy colour running over each other,
:13:11
are heavily attacked
by the Norwegian press as
:13:15
"an awe-inspiring
gibberish of futuristic art."
:13:24
For reasons
which still remain unclear,
:13:27
Edvard Munch is now formally invited
by the Berlin Art Association,
:13:31
the Verein Berliner Künstler,
:13:33
to arrange a one-man exhibition
of his work
:13:37
in their new exhibition hall,
the Architektenhaus,
:13:41
a converted beer-parlour
on the Wilhelmstraße.
:13:44
On the 5th November
the exhibition opens,
:13:47
containing many of
Munch's latest paintings,
:13:50
a total of 55 canvases.
:13:54
The Berlin press is here in force,
:13:57
including Adolf Rosenberg,
of Kunstchronik,