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Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) was one of Modernism's most significant artists. He was active throughout more than sixty years; from the time he made his debut in the 1880s, right up to his death in 1944. Munch was part of the Symbolist movement in the 1890s, and a pioneer of expressionist art from the beginning of the 1900s onward.
Edvard Munch moved between numerous locations throughout his life. He left his marks at many different places and many places left their marks and impression in his art. He found inspiration everywhere he went.
- Visit Oslo, where he lived, where he worked, where he enjoyed and can be enjoyed.
- Visit Løten where he was born.
- Visit Lillehammer where you find one of the nation’s leading art museums.
- Travel in Munch’s footsteps to Vågå where he had his roots.
- Continue through the Norwegian countryside to his house in Åsgårdstrand. • Norwegian painter (1863–1944) For the film, see Edvard Munch (film). Edvard Munch (MUUNK;Norwegian:[ˈɛ̀dvɑɖˈmʊŋk]ⓘ; 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. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life beneath the influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state ('soul painting'); from this emerged his distinctive style. Travel brought new influences and outlets. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri dem Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of color. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on a major series of paintings he woul • He was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety. Edvard Munch was born in a rustic farmhouse in the village of ?dalsbruk in L?ten, Norway to Christian Munch, the son of a priest. Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura Catherine Bj?lstad, a woman half his age, in 1861. Edvard had an older sister, Johanne Sophie (born 1862), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas (born 1865), Laura Catherine (born 1867), and Inger Marie (born 1868). Both Sophie and Edvard appear to have inherited their artistic talent from their mother. Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776–1839) and historian Peter Andreas Munch (1810–1863). The family moved to Christiania (now Oslo) in 1864 when Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fort
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