Kristiania

/ ˌkrɪstɪˈɑːnɪə /

noun

1. a former name (1877–1924) of Oslo

Example Sentences

Guleng theorizes that Munch wrote the phrase shortly after an uncomfortable confrontation in 1895 while he was displaying the painting for the first time in the city of Kristiania, now Oslo.

Read more on Washington Post

He tells of how he was walking with two friends near Kristiania – as Oslo was then called – when the sun went down over the fjord.

Read more on The Guardian

Born in Ådalsbruk in 1863, Munch grew up in Kristiania amid poverty, puritanism and illness.

Read more on The Guardian

In Kristiania, as Oslo was then known, a radical bohemian scene besotted with Nietzsche cultivated Munch’s precocious genius, but its advocacy of free love ill-served his sanity.

Read more on The New Yorker

Raised in the working-class tenements of Oslo — the city was called Kristiania at the time — Munch was trained on a scholarship in Paris, where he encountered the work of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Read more on New York Times