In 1908, Munch spent seven months in the clinic of the Danish psychiatrist Daniel Jacobson in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. Most of the works by Munch included in this exhibition date from the period before that breakdown, since Munch’s treatment proved highly destructive to his artistic practice. After his stint in the clinic, he became a kind of Norwegian counterpart to Carl Larsson: idyllic and decorative – with the exception of the powerful The Sun, which was developed for the aula at the University of Oslo.