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Around the turn of the century, Munch worked to finish the " Frieze ".

He painted a number of pictures, several of them in larger format and to some extent featuring the Art Nouveau aesthetics of the time.

He made a wooden frame with carved reliefs for the large painting Metabolism ( 1898 ), initially called Adam and Eve.

This work reveals Munch's preoccupation with the " fall of man " myth and his pessimistic philosophy of love.

Motifs such as The Empty Cross and Golgotha ( both c. 1900 ) reflect a metaphysical orientation, and also echo Munch's pietistic upbringing.

The entire Frieze showed for the first time at the secessionist exhibition in Berlin in 1902.