EDVARD MUNCH paintings

Madonna	Girls on a Bridge	Lady from the Sea	The Scream	Starry Night	Eye in Eye
Street in Asgardstrand	The Wave	Murderer on the Lane	Melancholy	Flowering Meadow	Puberty

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Edvard Munch

December 12, 1863 - January 23, 1944

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Biography

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker. His intense and evocative treatment of anguish greatly influenced development of German expressionism in the early 20th century. The Scream (1893; originally called Despair), Munch's best-known painting, is regarded as an icon of existential anguish and is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death and melancholy. As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it. One version was stolen in 1994 and another in 2004. Both versions have since been recovered.

While stylistically influenced by the postimpressionists, Munch's subject matter is symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality. Munch maintained that the impressionism idiom did not suit his art. Interested in portraying not a random slice of reality, but situations brimming with emotional content and expressive energy, Munch carefully calculated his compositions to create a tense atmosphere.

During the 1890s, Munch favoured a shallow pictorial space, and used it in his frequently frontal figures. Since he chose the poses to produce the most convincing images of states of mind and psychological conditions (Ashes), the figures lend to the paintings' a monumental, static quality. Munch's figures appear to play roles on a theatre stage (Death in the Sick-Room), even perhaps a pantomime of fixed postures signifying the emotions. Because he gave his characters only one psychological dimension, as in The Scream, Munch's men and women do not seem realistic.

Munch died in Ekely, near Oslo, on January 23, 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. He left 1,000 paintings, 15,400 prints, 4,500 drawings and watercolors, and six sculptures to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen in his honor. The museum houses the broadest collection of his works. His works are also represented in major museums and galleries in Norway and abroad.

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

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