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Edvard Munch

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Edvard Munch in 1921
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The Dance of Life, Munch 1899/1900

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and print-maker. He was born in Adalsbruk. He was an expressionist who painted 1789 known paintings. He is well known for his treatment of emotion such as fear. His way of seeing things had a large influence on the expressionism of the 20th century. People saw this treatment as being intense.

During his life, he had success as a painter: He became famous outside Norway, and his paintings got high prices. The National Gallery (Norway) used much money to buy paintings by Munch.[1] He painted a large murals in the aula (main room) of Norway's (then) only university.

Early life and education

He had four brothers and sisters. He had followed his mother and sister by being the best artists in their family. While Edvard was still young, his mother and one of his sisters died. But it was when he was thirteen that he really came to like art. The first paintings he did were simple objects like medicine bottles and other objects. Later on, he drew oil paintings.

He went to technical college in 1879 where he learnt how to draw paintings with perspective. However, in 1880, the following year he left the school to become a painter.

He went to the Royal School of Art and Design. This is where he learnt sculpturing and naturalistic painting. This is where he drew his first important portrait of himself and his father.

Health and death

Munch was ill very often. Many scientists think that he suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression). He died at his house in Oslo.

Paintings

The Scream (1893; originally called Despair). This is Munch's best-known painting, and is one of the best known images in the world. It is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life. In the series Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death and melancholy. As with many of his works, he made several versions of the painting. One version was stolen from the Munch-museum in Oslo, Norway, on 22 August 2004, but on 31 August 2006 Norwegian police found it together with another picture that was stolen at the same time, Madonna.

The Frieze of Life themes come back throughout Munch's work. These themes can be seen in paintings such as The Sick Child (1886, portrait of his deceased sister Sophie), (1893–1894), Ashes (1894), and The Bridge. The last-named shows limp figures. Those figures have faces with no features, or they have no faces at all. Threatening shapes of heavy trees and houses are above the figures. Munch portrayed women either as frail, innocent sufferers or as lurid, life-devouring vampires. Munch analysts say this reflects his anxieties.

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The painting entitled Life by Edvard Munch at the Rådhuset (Oslo City Hall) in Oslo. The room is called The Munch room
Main page: List of paintings by Edvard Munch
  • 1885-86: The Sick Child
  • 1892: Evening on Karl Johan
  • 1893: The Scream
  • 1894: Ashes
  • 1894–1895: Madonna
  • 1895: Puberty
  • 1895: Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette
  • 1895: Death in the Sickroom
  • 1899–1900: The Dance of Life
  • 1899–1900: The Dead Mother
  • 1903: Village in Moonlight
  • 1940–1942: Self Portrait: Between Clock and Bed

Other paintings

  • Edvard Munch - The Seine at Saint-Cloud - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Seine at Saint-Cloud. 1890. 46 × 38 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo - Google Art Project.jpg

    At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo. 1892. 74,5 × 116 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • August Strindberg by Edvard Munch.jpg

    August Strindberg. 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Edvard Munch - Death in the Sickroom - Google Art Project.jpg

    Death in the Sickroom. 1893. 134 × 160 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • 'Starry Night' by Edvard Munch, 1893, Getty Center.JPG

    Starry Night. 1893. 135.6 × 140 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum.

  • Edvard Munch - Vampire (1895) - Google Art Project.jpg

    Vampire. 1895. 91 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Anxiety - Google Art Project.jpg

    Anxiety. 1894. 94 × 74 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Munch deathSickroom.jpg

    Death in the Sickroom. c. 1895. Oil on canvas. 59 × 66 in. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Evening. Melancholy I - Google Art Project.jpg

    Evening. Melancholy I. 1896. 41.1 × 55.7 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Separation - Google Art Project.jpg

    Separation. 1896. 96 × 127 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - The Voice , Summer Night - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Voice / Summer Night. 1896. 90 × 119 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - The Kiss - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Kiss. 1897. 99 × 81 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Inheritance - Google Art Project.jpg

    Inheritance. 1897–99. 141 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Red and White - Google Art Project.jpg

    Red and White. 1899–1900. 93 × 129 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Train Smoke - Google Art Project.jpg

    Train Smoke. 1900. 84 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Consul Christen Sandberg - Google Art Project.jpg

    Consul Christen Sandberg. 1901. 215 × 147 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Kiss IV - Google Art Project.jpg

    Kiss IV. 1902. 47 × 47 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand - Google Art Project.jpg

    Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand. 1903. 87 × 111 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - The Brooch. Eva Mudocci - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Brooch. Eva Mudocci. 1903. 76 × 53.2 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Shore with Red House - Google Art Project.jpg

    Shore with Red House. 1904. 69 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

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    Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (1906). Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm

  • MunchDerToddesMarat1907.JPG

    Death of Marat I (1907)

  • Edvard Munch - Jealousy - Google Art Project.jpg

    Jealousy. 1907. 75 × 98 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - The Sun - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Sun. 1910–11. 450 × 772 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Galloping Horse - Google Art Project.jpg

    Galloping Horse. 1910–12. 148 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - The Yellow Log - Google Art Project.jpg

    The Yellow Log. 1912. 129.5 × 159.5 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - On the Sofa - Google Art Project.jpg

    On the Sofa. 1913. 80 × 150 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Weeping Nude - Google Art Project.jpg

    Weeping Nude. 1913–14. 110 × 135 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Golgotha (1900).jpg

    Golgotha.1900.

  • Edvard Munch - Workers on their Way Home - Google Art Project.jpg

    Workers on their Way Home. 1913–14. 227 × 201 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

Self-portraits

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project (533070).jpg

    Self-Portrait. 1882. 26 × 19 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait (1895) G0192-59 - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait. 1895. 458 × 314 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait in Hell - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait in Hell. 1903. 82 × 66 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait with Brushes - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait with Brushes. 1904. 197 × 91 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine. 1906. 110 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

Photographs

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait at 53 Am Strom in Warnemünde - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait at 53 Am Strom in Warnemünde. 1907. 89 × 89 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Edvard Munch at the Beach in Warnemünde - Google Art Project.jpg

    Edvard Munch at the Beach in Warnemünde. 1907. 83 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait “à la Marat” - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait “à la Marat”. 1908–09. 81 × 85 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent I - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent I. 1906. 90 × 90 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent II - Google Art Project.jpg

    Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent II. 1906. 82 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

  • Portrett av Edvard Munch, 26 år gammel.jpg

    Portrait at 26 years

  • Portrait photographique dEdvard Munch (4865295519).jpg

    Portrait of Edvard Munch 1902

  • Portrett av Edvard Munch.jpg

    Portrait of Edvard Munch

  • Portrett av Edvard Munch, 1929 (8382627071).jpg

    Portrait of Edvard Munch 1929

  • Edvard Munch 1912.jpg

    Munch in 1912

  • Edvard Munch - Rosa Meissner at the Hotel Rohn in Warnemünde - Google Art Project.jpg

    Rosa Meissner at the Hotel Rohn in Warnemünde. 1907. Photograph. 87 × 73 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

References

  1. ↑ Gro Finne. "Det overvurderte 'geniet' ". 19 August 2017. Klassekampen. page 49. "Selvfølgelig var det strid om hans banebrytende verk, men han oppnådde internasjonal berømmelse og nasjonal anerkjennelse i sin samtid ved store innkjøp til Najsonalgalleriet, høye priser og utsmykningen av Universitetets aula."

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