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There is a Harald Sohlberb exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. I don't think I will get there for physical reasons, but looking online at Sohlbrg's work I wish I could.

Roughly the same era as Munch, but less well known, Solhberg seems to be described as "Neo-Romatntic" or "Symbolist". I'm not sure these labels fit, I can't understand why Symbolist. Neo-Romantic is there perhaps in this archytypal vision of a lonely homestead seen at dusk.


But this example seems more Expressionist.


Other paintings by Sohlberg defy simple categorisation and show how individual a painter he was. See here for some examples.


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