Evening on Karl Johan Street by Edvard Munch - 1892 - 84.5 x 121 cm Rasmus Meyer Collection Evening on Karl Johan Street by Edvard Munch - 1892 - 84.5 x 121 cm Rasmus Meyer Collection

Evening on Karl Johan Street

oil na canvas • 84.5 x 121 cm
  • Edvard Munch - 12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944 Edvard Munch 1892

This painting of Edvard Munch always scares me. Evening on Karl Johan takes place on the main street in Kristiana (now Oslo). The people don’t have names or faces, depicting some kind of zombie walk. They are isolated from each other, lonely and uncommunicative. You can describe this painting with one word: anxiety.