In the footsteps of Edvard Munch in Norway

Special correspondent in Oslo

Munch, the world learned to correctly pronounce this Norwegian name, today written in five blood-red letters on its new museum in Oslo, the Munchmuseet, a geomorphological block of concrete and steel which dominates the port from its twelve floors.

The puny child of a military doctor, the son scarred in his heart from childhood by the death of his mother, then of his older sister, this stubborn, obsessive and dissatisfied artist, this fleeing lover, always on the journey and in search of of subsidies, became the great painter of

, inhabited by this "poem of life, love and death" which the Musée d'Orsay celebrates with sovereign respect.

Christiania became Oslo in 1924, named after one of its modest suburbs.

The fjord is there, less purple, less violent than that of the

whose first version from 1893 sits in the room, black as a safe, of the new National Museum of Oslo inaugurated in June by HM Queen Sonja.

In the absence of this

which no longer leaves Norway, the Musée d'Orsay...

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