Almost not interested in politics, Munch felt great sympathy for those who earn their living through hard work. Probably there was something in this from the ever-living memory of childhood – so did the father and the family to raise money for the family. In his youth, Munch often painted workers; living in Germany, from time to time he wrote to farmers, fishermen and even beggars.
However, this theme became stable in his work only after the artist returned to Norway from the Copenhagen clinic. He devoted a number of his works to her, creating a whole gallery of memorable images of ordinary people, such as in the figures The Woodcutter and The Three Workers, 1920. He also planned to depict the workers on the wall paintings of the town hall in Oslo, but in the end refused this order due to eye disease.
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