Norwegian Romanticism, essentially illustrated by the many paintings by J.C. Dahl and the well-known Bridal Voyage in the Hardanger Fjord by Tidemand and Gude, tries more than anything else to depict Nature's many riches. Between Realism and Impressionism, Thaulow and C. Krohgs worked with a new originality. Munch, despite having a museum entirely to himself, is present here as well through work from the 1990s that often reworks subjects of his such as The Scream. The earlier 'Matisse school' (P. Krohg, Revold or Sorensen with his Golgotha), illustrates Norwegian Cubism.
Alongside this Norwegian work that is little-known abroad, the Gallery also possesses some European Old Masters. From Spain, a Greco masterpiece (The Repentence of St Peter) and works by Goya, Ribera (Youth with a Louse); from the Netherlands, Ruysdael, Rubens (St John the Evangelist), Rembrandt, Van Dyck (Portrait of Karell Van Mallery); Lucas Cranach I with a Garden of Delights and two splendid Friedrich works (a Moonlight and a Mountain Landscape) which represent the Germanic countries. France is in a choice position with an almost complete range of works covering the 19C. The collection runs from Delacroix to the Realists (Courbet, Corot) and the Impressionists (Degas, Renoir, Manetand Monet with The Seine at Argenteuil and Rain at Étretat) or those who followed them (four paintings by Cézanne, a Self-Portrait by Van Gogh, Breton landscapes by Gauguin). The 20C includes a 1912 Guitar by Picasso. Indeed a museum not to be missed!