Edvard Munch

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

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 sexual anxieties.

The painting entitled Life by Edvard Munch at the Rådhuset (Oslo City Hall) in Oslo. The room is called The Munch room
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
  • Some famous paintings
  • The Scream. 1893. Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
  • The Dance of Life. 1899–1900. Oil on canvas, 49​1⁄2 × 75 in. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
  • Ashes. 1894. Oil on canvas. 120.5 × 141 cm. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
  • Madonna. 1894. Oil on canvas. 90 × 68 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

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

Nudes
  • Puberty. 1894-95.
  • The Hands. 1893.
  • Seated Nude. 1902.
  • Weeping woman. 1907-1909.
  • Morning Yawn. 1913.
  • Naked model by the wicker chair. 1919.

Self-portraits
  • Self-Portrait. 1882. 26 × 19 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Self-Portrait. 1895. 458 × 314 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Self-Portrait in Hell. 1903. 82 × 66 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Self-Portrait with Brushes. 1904. 197 × 91 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine. 1906. 110 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo

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