Edvard Munch 2008, the painting "Vampire" set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for US$38,162,000 at Sotheby's New York. Munch's image appears on the Norwegian 1,000-kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork. In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, "Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway. In May 2012, "The Scream" sold for US$119.9 million, and is the second most expensive artwork ever sold at an open auction. (It was surpassed in November 2013 by "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", which sold
1943 University of Oslo fire university. It is a part of the original university campus in downtown Oslo (not Blindern), and was built as an annex to the already existing "Domus Media", "Domus Academica" og "Domus Bibliotheca", built between 1841 and 1851. The ceremony hall has been used for lectures, graduation ceremonies and concerts and also features valuable paintings by Edvard Munch. When Nazi Germany invaded and subsequently occupied Norway in 1940, "Universitetets Aula" was originally used for Norwegian prisoners of war. The valuable Munch paintings were stored somewhere else. After the war phase was over in Eastern Norway, the university continued mostly as usual