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| Edvard Munch(1863- 1944) Self Portrait |
Edvard Munch(12 December 1863-23 January 1944) was a Norwegian artist and painter. The Scream is one of his major most iconic image and painting. It is considered as one of the most famous and known paintings of all the time.
Life
Edvard munch was born to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch in a farmhouse in a village of Norway. Edvard’s father was a doctor. Edvard had four siblings. His mother Laura had an artistic bent of mind which may have influenced Edvard towards arts and painting. Painter Jacob munch and historian Peter Andreas Munch were related to Edvard Munch.
Influences
Edvard joined a technical college in 1870 to study engineering but later left the college to become a painter. Munch’s father was very disappointed. Edvard wrote his goal in diary “"In my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”
From the very begining he was greatly influenced by impressionists such has Edouard manet and post-impressionism artists such has Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh.
The Scream
The scream was his most famous work which he painted in 1893.
Later years
In his later years of life he worked in peace and privacy. He died in his house in Ekely which is near Oslo in 1944. At the time of his death he was 80 year of age.
Art works
- 1885–1886: The Sick Child
- 1892: Evening on Karl Johan
- 1892: At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo
- 1893: The Scream
- 1894: Ashes
- 1894: Anxiety
- 1894: Woman in Three Stages
- 1894–1895: Madonna
- 1894–1896: Melancholy
- 1895: Puberty
- 1895: Self-Portrait with Cigarette
- 1895: Death in the Sickroom
- 1896: Separation
- 1896: The Voice / Summer Night
- 1899–1900: The Dance of Life
- 1899–1900: The Dead Mother
- 1903: Village in Moonlight
- 1903: Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand
- 1903: The Brooch, Eva Mudocci
- 1907: Jealousy
- 1910-12: Galloping Horse
- 1913-14: Workers on their way home
- 1940–1942: Self-Portrait. Between the Clock and the Bed
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| Starry Night |
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| Anxiety, 1894, 94 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 291⁄4 in) |
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| Galloping Horse, 1910–12, 148 cm × 120 cm (581⁄4 in × 471⁄4 in) |
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| The Brooch, Eva Mudocci, 1903, lithograph print on paper |
_fineartandyou.jpeg "Ashes, 1894, oil on canvas") |
| Ashes, 1894, oil on canvas |
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| Death in the Sickroom |
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| Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand, 1903 |
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| Jealousy, 1907, 75 cm × 98 cm |
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| Kiss IV, 1902, woodcut print on wood, 47 cm × 47 cm |
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| Separation, 1896, 96 cm × 127 cm (373⁄4 in × 50 in) |
_fineartandyou.jpeg "The Sick Child") |
| The Sick Child |
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| The Voice / Summer Night, 1896, 90 cm × 119 cm (351⁄2 in × 463⁄4 in) |
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| The Yellow Log, 1912, 129.5 cm × 159.5 cm (51 in × 623⁄4 in) |
_-_fineartandyou.jpeg "Love and pain (Vampire) 1895, 91 cm × 109 cm (35+3⁄4 in × 43 in)") |
| Love and pain (Vampire) 1895, 91 cm × 109 cm (353⁄4 in × 43 in) |
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| Workers on their Way Home, 1913–14 |
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| The Scream, 1893 |
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| At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo, 1892, |
_fineartandyou.jpeg "Golgotha, 1900, oil on canvas") |
| Golgotha, 1900, oil on canvas |
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| Red and White, 1899–1900, 93 cm × 129 cm (361⁄2 in × 503⁄4 in) |
_fineartandyou.jpeg "The Dance of Life, 1899–1900") |
| The Dance of Life, 1899–1900 |
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| The Sun, 1910–1911 |
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Evening on Karl Johan Street, 1892 |
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