From Thüringerwald

Munch's time in Germany during 1904 extended beyond the Baltic coast to include the interior, and From Thüringerwald documents a journey into the Thuringian Forest in central Germany. The forest was among the most culturally resonant landscapes in German art and literature — Goethe had walked its paths and written about it, and the dense woodland of Thuringia had figured in German Romantic painting as a symbol of national depth and spiritual interiority. For Munch, accustomed to the austere coastal and forested landscapes of southern Norway, the Thuringian Forest offered related but distinct material: darker, denser, more enclosed than the open Norwegian shoreline. The Dallas Museum of Art holds this as one of the rare North American institutional holdings of a Munch landscape from his German period, when his sustained engagement with the German landscape and art world was at its most concentrated.

Munch brings his broadly Expressionist landscape technique to the Thuringian forest, the dense tree cover rendered in varying shades of green and the forest interior's particular quality of filtered light captured with loose, vertical strokes. The German forest landscape has a different compositional character from his open Norwegian coastal scenes.