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Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter (1863–1944)

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.

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

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

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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

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

Paintings

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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.

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 sexual anxieties.

 
The painting entitled Life by Edvard Munch at the Rådhuset (Oslo City Hall) in Oslo. The room is called The Munch room
See the main article: 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

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    The Seine at Saint-Cloud. 1890. 46 × 38 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo. 1892. 74,5 × 116 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    August Strindberg. 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
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    Death in the Sickroom. 1893. 134 × 160 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Starry Night. 1893. 135.6 × 140 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum.
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    Vampire. 1895. 91 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Anxiety. 1894. 94 × 74 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Death in the Sickroom. c. 1895. Oil on canvas. 59 × 66 in. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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    Lady From the Sea (detail). 1896. Oil on canvas. 39​1⁄2 × 126 in.
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    Evening. Melancholy I. 1896. 41.1 × 55.7 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Separation. 1896. 96 × 127 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    The Voice / Summer Night. 1896. 90 × 119 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    The Kiss. 1897. 99 × 81 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Inheritance. 1897–99. 141 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Metabolism. 1898–99. 172 × 142 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Red and White. 1899–1900. 93 × 129 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Train Smoke. 1900. 84 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Consul Christen Sandberg. 1901. 215 × 147 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Kiss IV. 1902. 47 × 47 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand. 1903. 87 × 111 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    The Brooch. Eva Mudocci. 1903. 76 × 53.2 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Shore with Red House. 1904. 69 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (1906). Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm
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    Death of Marat I (1907)
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    Jealousy. 1907. 75 × 98 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    The Sun. 1910–11. 450 × 772 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Galloping Horse. 1910–12. 148 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    The Yellow Log. 1912. 129.5 × 159.5 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    On the Sofa. 1913. 80 × 150 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Weeping Nude. 1913–14. 110 × 135 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Golgotha.1900.
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    Workers on their Way Home. 1913–14. 227 × 201 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

Nudes

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Self-portraits

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Photographs

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    Self-Portrait at 53 Am Strom in Warnemünde. 1907. 89 × 89 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Edvard Munch at the Beach in Warnemünde. 1907. 83 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Self-Portrait “à la Marat”. 1908–09. 81 × 85 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent I. 1906. 90 × 90 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent II. 1906. 82 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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    Portrait at 26 years
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    Portrait of Edvard Munch 1902
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    Portrait of Edvard Munch
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    Portrait of Edvard Munch 1929
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    Munch in 1912
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    Rosa Meissner at the Hotel Rohn in Warnemünde. 1907. Photograph. 87 × 73 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo

Paintings by year

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Image Name Year Information Where the painting is (now)
  Telthusbakken with Gamle Aker Church 1880 The hill, Telthusbakken ('tent-house hill') is in Oslo It is not known where the painting is (as of the 2020s).
  Øvre Foss 1880 The place is in Oslo, Norway. Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Small Lake with Boat 1880 In a museum in Oslo
  Boat with Three Boys c. 1886 In a museum in Oslo
  Man on the Veranda 1886 Kreeger Museum, Washingtion, DC. USA
  From Hisøya near Arendal 1886 Unknown
  Woman and Children in Arendal 1886 Private collection


  Self-portrait c. 1888 In a museum in Oslo
  Aasta Carlsen 1888–89 She was a painter. Other pictures of her, and her other name In a museum in Oslo
  Spring 1889 National Museum, Oslo
  Summer Night. Inger on the Beach 1889 It is a portrait of Munch's youngest sister Inger. Kode Bergen (Norway)
  Night in Saint-Cloud 1890 National Museum, Oslo
  In the Bar 1890 Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
  In the Café 1890 In a museum in Oslo
  Woman in Evening Landscape 1890 In a museum in Oslo
  Evening. Melancholy 1891 In a museum in Oslo
  The Storm 1893 In the painting, the trees [bend or] are diagonal; Another sign of the storm, is the way that the sky is shown.[2]


Museum of Modern Art, New York City; The painting is being shown (as of the summer of 2024) in Munch Musem (Oslo), at an exhibition that ends in August.
  Puberty 1894–95 National Museum, Oslo
  Anxiety 1894 In a museum in Oslo
  Separation 1896 In a museum in Oslo
  Summer Night. The Voice 1896 In a museum in Oslo
  Felix Auerbach 1906 Other pictures of Auerbach, a physicist Unknown
  Self-Portrait against Red Background 1906 In a museum in Oslo
  Friedrich Nietzsche 1906 Only in a few cases did Munch, make portraits from photographs (instead of live models). Munch never met Friedrich Nietzsche. Photographs were used, while Munch made painting of Nietzsche. The painting was ordered by (and paid for) by Ernest Thiel. Thiel Gallery (in Djurgården), Stockholm, Sweden
  Friedrich Nietzsche 1906 In a museum in Oslo
  Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche 1906 She was the younger sister of Friedrich Nietzsche In a museum in Oslo
  Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche 1906 Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  Albert Kollmann 1906 Other pictures of Kollmann In a museum in Oslo
  Desire 1906–07 In a museum in Oslo
  Ernest Thiel 1907 Ernest Thiel built the house (1905) where the Thiel Gallery is (as of the 2020s). Other pictures of Thiel Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  The Harbour in Lübeck 1907 Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
  The Coast near Lübeck 1907 National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
  Rodin's "Le Penseur" in Dr. Linde's Garden 1907 Pictures of art collector Max Linde (or Dr. Linde from Germany) Musée Rodin, Paris, France
  Self-Portrait in Profile 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Female Portrait 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Portrait of an Old Man 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Old Man in Warnemünde 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Street in Warnemünde 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Women and Children in Warnemünde 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  The Drowned Boy 1907–08 In a museum in Oslo
  Worker and Child 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Mason and Mechanic 1907–08 In a museum in Oslo
  Bathing Men 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Bathing Men 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Bathing Men 1907–08 Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
  The Death of Marat 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  The Death of Marat 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Cupid and Psyche 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Consolation 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Woman with Children 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Cupido 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Weeping Woman 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Weeping Woman 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Weeping Woman 1907–09 The Art Museums in Bergen, Norway. Bergen Art Museum (Stenersen's collection)
  Weeping Woman 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Weeping Woman 1907–09 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Olga and Rosa Meissner 1907 Kode Bergen (Norway)
  Olga and Rosa Meissner 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Zum Süssen Mädel 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  Jealousy c. 1907 In a museum in Oslo
  The Sick Child 1907 Tate Modern, London
  The Sun 1910–11 In a museum in Oslo.
  Woman with Poppies 1918–1919 In a museum in Oslo.

References

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  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."
  2. ↑ Kåre Bulie. [the drama of nature] "Naturens dramatikk". Klassekampen. 2024-05-08. P.26

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