Presented here is information about the project Edvard Munch’s Posthumous Written Material and samples of what is stored in the Munch archives.

The material is under development. The website is currently being used to test technical solutions. Both the material and the website will be subject to continuous change until the planned launching of the Archives in the fall of 2010.

Samples

Some of Edvard Munch’s postcards in facsimile:

Click on the postcard for an enlarged view. The reverse side of the postcard is shown together with the front.

Digital facsimiles of Munch’s written texts

Here are additional examples of the types of writing that are included in the Munch archives:

• Letter (short note) to Karen Bjølstad dated 25/11 1890
• Letter to Karen Bjølstad Dec. 1890 (actually Jan. 1891)
• Note on the reverse side of a letter dated 15/07 1904 from Georg Bröchner
• Letter to Ludvig Ravensberg postmarked Hamburg 02/03 1905, Kristiania 04/03 1905
• Letter to Ludvig Ravensberg postmarked Warnemünde 21/05 1908, Kristiania 23/05 1908
• Letter (short letter) to Albert Kollmann postmarked Kragerø 06/xx 1912
• Telegram from Berlin to Edvard Munch 21/09 1914, the draft of a response to Carl Larsen on the reverse side
• Draft of a letter to Erik Johan Krafft dated 20/12 1942
• Draft of a letter to Inger Munch (?), undated and written in ink, written over another letter to Inger Munch, undated and written in pencil
• From the Munch Museum's website: Two of Munch's sketch books

Experimental displays of facsimiles and transcriptions

We will publish material in the form of demos and test displays. We would greatly appreciate your response to the material presented in the test pages: comments, ideas, reports of any mistakes, etc. (Please use the feedback tag in the window on the right.)

^{View test material here!}