
© Edvard Munch, Girls watering flowers (The Freia Frieze IV), 1922, oil on canvas. Photo: © NIKU
Edvard Munch’s large-scale paintings for the Freia chocolate factory in 1923 were the first ever decorative artworks to be commissioned for a factory. It was also the first time such works had been commissioned for a women’s canteen. With the temporary relocation of these works from Freia’s headquarters to MUNCH, it will be possible to view them at close range, together with a rich selection of sketches and other related works.
Read more at https://www.munch.no/en/exhibitions/edvard-munch-and-the-chocolate-factory/
Experience Edvard Munch’s historic decoration for the Freia chocolate factory for the first time, in an exhibition that connects his interest in creating art for public spaces with themes of cacao, workers’ rights and women’s emancipation.