Kristiania
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From 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.
From The Guardian
Born in Ådalsbruk in 1863, Munch grew up in Kristiania amid poverty, puritanism and illness.
From The Guardian
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.
From New York Times
"From Kristiania; Kule has inherited this house, and folks say living is cheap here."
From Project Gutenberg
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