Viking Star Art Collection

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 MAGNE FURUHOLMEN 1962 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY Magne Furuholmen is a well-known Norwegian artist, musician and composer, perhaps best known as the keyboardist of the pop band A-ha. In recent years, he has dedicated much of his time to his artistic practice. As a visual artist, Furuholmen works with paint, etching, woodcut, glass and ceramics, and his work has been exhibited around the world. In his artistic expression Furuholmen experiments with the visual qualities of linguistic structures, text and letters, and seeks to recreate language as art. His idiom is modern, aesthetically and visually captivating. BORDERLESS | YEAR UNKNOWN 44

ATRIUM | DECK 1–2 EDVARD MUNCH 1863–1944 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY Edvard Munch was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker, and is recognized today as perhaps one of the world’s most famous artists. Munch began to paint already at the age of 12 and lived a life devoted to art. His artistic oeuvre extends over a period of more than 60 years, and during these years he painted over 2,000 paintings and made tens of thousands of prints. Munch can be said to be almost as famous for his biography as he is for his art. In periods he lived a nomadic and turbulent life, a so-called bohemian, together with Kristiania Bohemians in the Norwegian capital and in the environment around the wine bar Zum schwarzen Ferkel in Berlin. During his long life as an artist, Munch experimented with the different painterly directions of his time, but it is first and foremost as a symbolist and expressionist he has become famous. Paintings such as The Scream, Madonna, Death in the Sickroom and The Dance of Life are highly praised icons in art history. TITLE UNKNOWN | YEAR UNKNOWN 45