Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Edvard Munch ( , 12 December 1863 â `` 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter , printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art .
Simplified: Edvard Munch ( 12 December 1863 -- 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and print-maker . He was an expressionist .