Portrait of Emilie Floge Romanticism Munch commented on his painting

Munch commented on his painting as follows: "In a powerful inner state of mind

While the black square is a closed thing

one of the most common landscapes in Japanese art

This earned him the nickname "customs officer" ("douanier" in French)

and the effects of the atmosphere on a nature devoid of any human presence

Portrait of Emilie Floge Romanticism Munch commented on his paintingA very great seducer, Gustav falls in love with his sister in law, Emilie Floge. She becomes his most frequently painted model and at the same time a secretly loved lover, to whom he never succumbed, preferring to place her in the ideal world. The strange bond that will unite them for more than twenty years makes Emilie "the eternal muse".