Kiøsterudgården

Kiøsterudgården was a farm property near Åsgårdstrand or in the broader Vestfold region of Norway that Munch depicted in this 1902 work. Farm buildings and rural properties appeared occasionally in Munch's landscape practice as subjects that rooted his Norwegian summer world in agricultural rather than purely coastal experience. The specific property name — unusual in Munch's work, which more often leaves locations unnamed — suggests a particular attachment to or interest in this holding, perhaps connected to friends or acquaintances in the area. The work's current location is untraced, suggesting private ownership.

Munch renders the farm property with his characteristic landscape directness, the buildings placed in their rural setting with broad strokes that capture the architecture's mass and the surrounding land's character without topographic specificity. The palette is naturalistic and relatively unambiguous.