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October 1895.
The Blomqvist gallery in Kristiania.
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Munch exhibits 40 works.
Amongst them, The Life Frieze.
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The exhibition is heavily is attacked.
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The newspaper Morgenbladet states:
"so much nonsense and ugliness...
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"dreadful... low and repulsive...
grimacing and confused...
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"crude and shrieking hideousness."
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The newspaper Aftenposten
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attacks The Life Frieze as being
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"a number of sensual fantasies,
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"the hallucinations of a sick mind."
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A boycott of the building is called for
and the police are summoned.
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This is the worst I've seen.
I don't understand any of it.
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And the colours are so ugly.
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Besides, it's highly immoral.
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If one goes there, one almost has
to sneak in by the backdoor.
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How can a young man who looks
so nice create things like this?
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One can't take one's family along
and enjoy the art.
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I'm not an advocate of censorship
but why should things like this be exhibited?
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After all, children might see them.
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Edvard Munch returns to Berlin.
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Abroad, people will wonder
what sort of morals we have.
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It's not just ugly.
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He paints such unpleasant things,
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things one doesn't speak of,
at least my husband and I.
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I regard this as something
which must come to an end.
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In late November,
Peter Andreas Munch,
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now married for six months,
writes to his family,