Editing Edvard Munch (section)

===University Aula===
[[File:Universitetets Aula (151651).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The Aula featuring ''History'' (left), ''The Sun'' (front), ''Alma Mater'' (right), smaller paintings on corners]]
In 1911 the final competition for the decoration of the large walls of the University of Oslo Aula (assembly hall) was held between Munch and [[Emanuel Vigeland]]. The episode is known as the "Aula controversy". In 1914 Munch was finally commissioned to decorate the Aula and the work was completed in 1916. This major work in Norwegian monumental painting includes 11 paintings covering {{cvt|223|m2}}. ''The Sun'', ''History'' and ''Alma Mater'' are the key works in this sequence. Munch declared: "I wanted the decorations to form a complete and independent world of ideas, and I wanted their visual expression to be both distinctively Norwegian and universally human". In 2014 it was suggested that the Aula paintings have a value of at least 500&nbsp;million kroner (approx $111 million USD in 2025).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html |title=Edvard Munch i Universitetets aula |publisher=[[University of Oslo]] |date=3 January 2013 |access-date=15 November 2014 |archive-date=29 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129022118/http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Universitas, 29 October 2014.{{full citation needed|date=September 2018}}</ref>