Every month, on the third Saturday, Christophe Boïcos and Anne Catherine Abecassis take turns and host a conference, followed by a short Q&A session. The conference will be recorded live, and available online for one month.

This month’s lecture, “Christian Krohg and Christiania Bohemia” is based on the current exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which runs from 25 March through 27 July 2025.

The Musée d'Orsay has devoted an important exhibition to Norwegian artist Christian Krohg (1852-1925), the artist's first-ever retrospective outside Scandinavia. Along with the younger Edvard Munch, whose mentor he was, and the playwright Henrik Ibsen, Christian Krohg is the third great cultural figure of turn-of-the century Norway.

Our lecture will focus on Krohg’s connection to the intellectual ferment of the Norwegian capital, Christiania (Oslo), in the last decades of the 19th century and his central position in the Bohemian circles of the capital as painter but also writer, journalist and political militant. We will be discussing his relationships with the key figures of his time, radical writers such as Georg Brandes, Hans Jæger, Jappe Nilsen, August Strindberg and painters Edvard Munch and Frits Thaulow and of course his celebrated wife, Oda Krohg (née Lasson), the feminist icon of her day.

Krohg’s depiction of women and children of all social classes and conditions are particularly noteworthy for their psychology, empathy and keen sense of social observation.

Lecture begins at

8:00am (PT)
11:00am (ET)
5:00pm (CET)

This event is open to all AFMO Members.

All invitations are personal and non-transferable.

Image: Christian Krohg (1852-1925). Les Bohémiens (Dans mon atelier) [Bohemene (Fra mitt atelier)], 1885. Lillehammer, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, LKM.166