Kunsthalle Emden exhibiting paintings by Nikolai Astrup of Norway
Kunsthalle Emden

The Emden art museum greets Norway: “Møin Norwegen” (“Hello Norway”)
The Kunsthalle Emden is a museum for 20th-century and contemporay art in Emden, East Frisia, Germany. Currently, the art museums is featuring an exhibit of Norwegian landscape paintings by Nikoalai Astrup (1880-1928), whose works have often been likened to those of his much better known contemporary Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The exhibit is entitled in German “Norwegen. Eine Entdeckung”, meaning “Norway. A discovery.” And indeed, you are in for a real treat on your exhibition tour, discovering the magnificent, magic and mystic sceneries of Norwegian lands and life—as painted by Astrup, who is well known in his home country, but, until now, has been little known in the rest of the world.

The letters above the entrance of the Kunsthalle are welcoming this exciting Norwegian art exhibit with “Møin Norwegen.” Since I am not sure if “Møin” is really used in Norwegian greeting phrases, I am assuming that this is a word play—or spelling play. The homophonous, similar-written word “Moin” is a greeting used at all times of the day in northern Germany, especially in Frisian provinces to which the East-Frisian city of Emden belongs.

The Nikolai Astrup show is scheduled to end on January 22, 2017.
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Visiting Emden
▶ Møin Norwegen
▶ Kunsthalle Emden
▶ Wikipedia: Kunsthalle in Emden
▶ Seehafenstadt Emden: Kunsthalle Emden
▶ Gerhart Schreiter's Myrra
▶ A historic steam locomotive: Denkmallok 043 903-4