# Evening, Melancholy I, in Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch made this in 1896, aged 33. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Evening, Melancholy I depicts the jilted, tormented art critic Jappe Nilssen, Munch's friend, on the shore of Åsgårdstrand, a fishing village south of Oslo.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1896
- Medium: Hand-colored woodcut
- Dimensions: Image: 37.7 x 45 cm (14 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.82
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Edvard Munch](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edvard-munch), Norwegian, 1863–1944

Munch trained in Kristiania, now Oslo, and spent long periods in Paris and Berlin in the 1890s, where he developed The Frieze of Life, a cycle on love, anxiety and death that includes The Scream.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Edvard Munch's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-edvard-munch?hang=749) (8 works)
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- [19th-century Scandinavia](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-scandinavia?hang=749) (5 works)

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