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.

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.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." 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.

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.


 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 

 Nudes 

Self-portraits

Photographs

Paintings by year

 Image  Name  Year  Information  Where the painting is (now)100pxTelthusbakken with Gamle Aker Church1880The hill, Telthusbakken ('tent-house hill') is in Oslo  It is not known where the painting is (as of the 2020s).|100px||Øvre Foss||1880|| The place is in Oslo, Norway. ||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Small Lake with Boat|| 1880|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Boat with Three Boys||c. 1886|| ||In a museum in Oslo| 100px||Man on the Veranda||1886|| ||Kreeger Museum, Washingtion, DC. USA|100px ||From Hisøya near Arendal||1886|| ||Unknown| 100px||	Woman and Children in Arendal||1886|| ||Private collection|100px||Self-portrait||c. 1888|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Aasta Carlsen||1888–89||She was a painter. Other pictures of her, and her other name||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Spring||1889|| ||National Museum, Oslo|100px||Summer Night. Inger on the Beach||1889|| It is a portrait of Munch's youngest sister Inger. ||Kode Bergen (Norway)|100px||Night in Saint-Cloud||1890|| ||National Museum, Oslo|100px||In the Bar||1890|| ||Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main|100px||In the Café||1890|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Woman in Evening Landscape||1890|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Evening. Melancholy||1891|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||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.Kåre Bulie. [the drama of nature] "Naturens dramatikk". Klassekampen. 2024-05-08. P.26

 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.|100px||Puberty||1894–95|| ||National Museum, Oslo|100px||Anxiety||1894||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Separation||1896|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Summer Night. The Voice||1896|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Felix Auerbach||1906|| Other pictures of Auerbach, a physicist ||Unknown|100px||Self-Portrait against Red Background||1906|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||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|100px||Friedrich Nietzsche||1906|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche||1906|| She was the younger sister of Friedrich Nietzsche ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche||1906|| ||Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden-->|100pxAlbert Kollmann1906 Other pictures of Kollmann In a museum in Oslo|100px||Desire||1906–07|| || In a museum in Oslo|100px||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|100px||The Harbour in Lübeck||1907||Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland|100px||The Coast near Lübeck||1907||National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic|100px||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|100px||Self-Portrait in Profile||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Female Portrait||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Portrait of an Old Man||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Old Man in Warnemünde||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Street in Warnemünde||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Women and Children in Warnemünde||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||The Drowned Boy||1907–08|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Worker and Child||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Mason and Mechanic||1907–08|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Bathing Men||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Bathing Men||1907|| ||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Bathing Men||1907–08|| ||Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland|100px||The Death of Marat||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||The Death of Marat||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Cupid and Psyche||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Consolation||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Woman with Children||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Cupido||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Weeping Woman||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Weeping Woman||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Weeping Woman||1907–09||The Art Museums in Bergen, Norway. Bergen Art Museum (Stenersen's collection)|100px||Weeping Woman||1907||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Weeping Woman||1907–09||Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway|100px||Olga and Rosa Meissner||1907||Kode Bergen (Norway)|100px||Olga and Rosa Meissner||1907||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Zum Süssen Mädel||1907||In a museum in Oslo|100px||Jealousy||c. 1907||In a museum in Oslo|100px||The Sick Child||1907||Tate Modern, London|100px||The Sun||1910–11||In a museum in Oslo.|100px||Woman with Poppies||1918–1919|| ||In a museum in Oslo.

References

 Other websites 

 Biography from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 The Munch Museum
 Gallery Munch - Løten 
 Munch at artcyclopedia
 Catalogue raisonné of Edvard Munch's paintings. 
 Edvard Munch 
 Interpol's page  about the stolen works of art
Munch and bipolar disorder:
 Rothenberg A. Bipolar illness, creativity, and treatment. Psychiatr Q. 2001 Summer;72(2):131-47.
 Edvard Munch in Germany 

Category:Norwegian painters
Category:1863 births
Category:1944 deaths