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Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief. During his career, Munch changed his idiom many times. At first, influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism, he turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness and death. In the 1892s, his style developed a 'Synthetist' idiom as seen in The Scream (1893) which is regarded as an icon and the portrayal of modern humanity's spiritual and existential anguish. He painted different versions of it. During the 1890s Munch favoured a shallow pictorial space, and used it in his frequently frontal pictures. His work often included the symbolic portrayal of such themes as misery, sickness, and death. and the poses of his figures in many of his portraits were chosen in order to capture their state of mind and psychological condition. It also lends a monumental, static quality to the paintings. In 1892, the Union of Berlin Artists invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition. His paintings invoked bitter controversy at the show, and after one week the exhibition closed. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled his work "degenerate art", and removed his works from German museums. This deeply hurt the anti-fascist Munch, who had come to feel Germany was his second homeland. In 1908 Munch's anxiety became acute and he was hospitalized. He returned to Norway in 1909 and died in Oslo in 1944.
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Table of contents
1MunchMunch
2© The Munch Museum/ The Munch-Ellingsen Group/ Artists Society (ARS), NY
3— Edvard Munch
4Biography
5Studies at the Royal School of Art and Design under Julius Middelthun.
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6Léon Bonnat. Drawn to Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Neo-Impressionists, and the Symbolists.
7Returns to Norway.
8Meets Tulla Larsen.
9Meets Eva Mudocci; stays in Lübeck with the Linde family.
101921-1922 Murals for canteen of Freia Chocolate Factory, Christiania.
11Self-Portrait
12world-wide critical acceptance of the Expressionist
131881 Oil on canvas, 16 x 21 cm Munch Museum, Oslo
14in 1863 to a frail young mother, Laura Bjølstad, and
151883 Oil on canvas, 47 x 41 cm Munch Museum, Oslo
16then his elder sister, and the faint but distinct possibility
171883 Oil on cardboard, 62 x 75 cm Munch Museum, Oslo
18thirty, shortly after the birth of her fifth child. The effect
191883 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 66 cm Private collection
20The unhappiness of his childhood experience of death
211884 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 103.8 cm Private collection, Bergen
22his sadness at the death of his young wife, would
231885 Oil on canvas, 190 x 100 cm Private collection
24death of his sister Sophie, the eldest child, when
251885 Oil on canvas, 66 x 76 cm Munch Museum, Oslo
26Self-Portrait
271886 Oil on wood, 33 x 24.5 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
28the marvellous The Sick Child, the first version of which
291889 Oil on canvas, 169 x 263.5 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
30for help, for relief from pain – neither Edvard nor his
311889 Oil on canvas, 109 x 84 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
32evocation of the state of the artist’s soul, this can fairly
331890 Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm Bergen Billedgalleri, Bergen
34Norwegian art’.1
351890 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 54 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
36of anger, and entirely without compassion. Although
37mind about the possibility of a continued existence in
381891 Oil on canvas, 72 x 98 cm Private collection
39portraits, from a year or so later (Self-Portrait, 1881-
401891 Oil on canvas, 99 x 65.5 cm Private collection
41Rue de Rivoli
42Melancholy
431892 Oil on canvas, 64 x 96 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
44Moonlight on the Coast
451892 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 96 cm Private collection, Bergen
46Thaulow, a frequent supporter, and grants from various
471892 Oil on canvas on wood, 172.5 x 122.5 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
48one of his earliest successes, Morning (A Servant Girl)
49Summer Night / Inger at the Beach
50Evening on Karl Johan Street
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