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WebEdvard Munch (/ m ʊ ŋ k / MUUNK, Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ⓘ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images.. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
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WebMar 28, 2024 · Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
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WebEdvard Munch is born on 12 December 1863, the son of Christian Munch, a military doctor, and his wife Laura. He spends his childhood in Kristiania, today’s Oslo, where the family lives on his father’s meagre doctor’s salary. When Munch is five years old, his mother dies from tuberculosis.
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WebEdvard Munch Biography. Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863 and, with the notable exception of the two decades from 1889 to 1909 spent traveling, studying, working and exhibiting in France and Germany, he lived there until his death in 1944.
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WebSecond only to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream may be the most iconic human figure in the history of Western art.
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WebEdvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the iconic images of world art. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread...
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WebNorwegian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Especially concerned with the expressive representation of emotions and personal relationships, he was associated with the international development of Symbolism during the 1890s and recognized as a precursor of Expressionism, particularly in his paintings and woodcuts.
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WebEdvard Munch, (born Dec. 12, 1863, Løten, Norway—died Jan. 23, 1944, Ekely), Norwegian painter and printmaker. His life and art were marked by the deaths of both parents, his brother, and his sister during his childhood, and the mental illness of another sister.
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WebMunch's art represented his own emotions, mostly the darker ones of fear, dread, loneliness, and sexual longing, with extraordinary expressiveness. The screaming figure personifies existential horror.
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WebArticles and Features. The Most Famous Paintings by Edvard Munch Everyone Should Know. Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life, 1899-1900. © National Gallery, Oslo. By Shira Wolfe. Edvard Munch was born on 12 December 1863 in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway. His family moved to Christiania, now Oslo, in 1864 and struggled financially.
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