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Monday, September 12, 2011

Paintings missing after Oslo bombing

Krohg’s painting I Leden, 1892, on loan to the ministry of finance from the Nasjonalmuseet, was damaged when several pieces of glass from shattered windows struck the canvas

Concern is mounting about the fate of large numbers of works of art owned by Norwegian government ministries or lent to them by the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) and Public Art Norway (Koro), following the terrorist ­attack in Oslo on 22 July. The buildings damaged in the bombing contained works by artists including Munch, Christian Krohg and Anne Katrine Dolven.

Read more at: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Paintings-missing-after-Oslo-bombing/24445

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