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During the two years of 1893
and 1894, sometimes alone,
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sometimes with the help of
Adolf Paul, biographer of Strindberg,
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Edvard Munch lists, labels,
checks, crates and dispatches
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upwards of 50 or 60 canvases
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to each of nearly
a dozen major exhibitions:
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Dresden, Breslau, Hamburg,
Berlin, Frankfurt.
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He travels hundreds of miles
by train.
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Sorrow... Sunset...
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Countless hotel bedrooms,
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often working on three or four
canvasses simultaneously
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and always under attack.
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In July 1894, at the age of 31,
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having painted for 14 years,
created some 80 canvases,
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organized 30 exhibitions,
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Edvard Munch receives
his first serious recognition
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as an artist,
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500 miles from his own homeland,
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the publication in Berlin
of four essays
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by the influential art-critic
Julius Meier-Graefe,
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Stanislav Przybyszewski
and two other German critics,
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the first evaluation
of Edvard Munch's art
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and its importance
for the contemporary age.
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At this time,
Strindberg is in Paris,
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already separated from his wife,
living in the utmost poverty,
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engaged in chemical experiments,
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trying to make gold from copper,
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about to begin the writing
of his short story Inferno,