From Thüringerwald

From Thüringerwald — from the Thuringian Forest — was painted during Munch's time in Germany in 1904, when the Linde commission in Lübeck and various exhibitions brought him into sustained contact with the German landscape and art world. The Thuringian Forest in central Germany — a dense, hilly, heavily wooded region with a strong association with German Romantic landscape painting and folk tradition — offered Munch a very different landscape from his Norwegian coastal scenes. The Dallas Museum of Art holds this as one of the few North American museum holdings of a Munch landscape from his German period.

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.