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.
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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.[1] He painted a large murals in the aula (main room) of Norway's (then) only university.
Early life and education
changeHe 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
changeMunch was ill very often. Many scientists think that he suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression). He died at his house in Oslo.
Paintings
changeThe 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
- Some famous paintings
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The Scream. 1893. Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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The Dance of Life. 1899–1900. Oil on canvas, 491⁄2 × 75 in. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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Ashes. 1894. Oil on canvas. 120.5 × 141 cm. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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Madonna. 1894. Oil on canvas. 90 × 68 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
Other paintings
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The Seine at Saint-Cloud. 1890. 46 × 38 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo. 1892. 74,5 × 116 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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August Strindberg. 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
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Death in the Sickroom. 1893. 134 × 160 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Starry Night. 1893. 135.6 × 140 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Vampire. 1895. 91 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Anxiety. 1894. 94 × 74 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Death in the Sickroom. c. 1895. Oil on canvas. 59 × 66 in. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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Lady From the Sea (detail). 1896. Oil on canvas. 391⁄2 × 126 in.
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Evening. Melancholy I. 1896. 41.1 × 55.7 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Separation. 1896. 96 × 127 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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The Voice / Summer Night. 1896. 90 × 119 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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The Kiss. 1897. 99 × 81 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Inheritance. 1897–99. 141 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Metabolism. 1898–99. 172 × 142 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Red and White. 1899–1900. 93 × 129 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Train Smoke. 1900. 84 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Consul Christen Sandberg. 1901. 215 × 147 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Kiss IV. 1902. 47 × 47 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand. 1903. 87 × 111 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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The Brooch. Eva Mudocci. 1903. 76 × 53.2 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Shore with Red House. 1904. 69 × 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (1906). Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm
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Death of Marat I (1907)
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Jealousy. 1907. 75 × 98 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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The Sun. 1910–11. 450 × 772 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Galloping Horse. 1910–12. 148 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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The Yellow Log. 1912. 129.5 × 159.5 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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On the Sofa. 1913. 80 × 150 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Weeping Nude. 1913–14. 110 × 135 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Golgotha.1900.
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Workers on their Way Home. 1913–14. 227 × 201 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
Nudes
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Puberty. 1894-95.
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The Hands. 1893.
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Seated Nude. 1902.
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Weeping woman. 1907-1909.
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Morning Yawn. 1913.
Self-portraits
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Self-Portrait. 1882. 26 × 19 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait. 1895. 458 × 314 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait in Hell. 1903. 82 × 66 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait with Brushes. 1904. 197 × 91 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine. 1906. 110 × 120 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo
Photographs
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Self-Portrait at 53 Am Strom in Warnemünde. 1907. 89 × 89 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Edvard Munch at the Beach in Warnemünde. 1907. 83 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait “à la Marat”. 1908–09. 81 × 85 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent I. 1906. 90 × 90 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Self-Portrait Somewhere on the Continent II. 1906. 82 × 87 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Portrait at 26 years
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Portrait of Edvard Munch 1902
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Portrait of Edvard Munch
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Portrait of Edvard Munch 1929
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Munch in 1912
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Rosa Meissner at the Hotel Rohn in Warnemünde. 1907. Photograph. 87 × 73 mm. Munch Museum, Oslo
Paintings by year
changeImage | Name | Year | Information | Where the painting is (now) |
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Telthusbakken with Gamle Aker Church | 1880 | The hill, Telthusbakken ('tent-house hill') is in Oslo | It is not known where the painting is (as of the 2020s). | |
Øvre Foss | 1880 | The place is in Oslo, Norway. | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | |
Small Lake with Boat | 1880 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Boat with Three Boys | c. 1886 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Man on the Veranda | 1886 | Kreeger Museum, Washingtion, DC. USA | ||
From Hisøya near Arendal | 1886 | Unknown | ||
Woman and Children in Arendal | 1886 | Private collection
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Self-portrait | c. 1888 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Aasta Carlsen | 1888–89 | She was a painter. Other pictures of her, and her other name | In a museum in Oslo | |
Spring | 1889 | National Museum, Oslo | ||
Summer Night. Inger on the Beach | 1889 | It is a portrait of Munch's youngest sister Inger. | Kode Bergen (Norway) | |
Night in Saint-Cloud | 1890 | National Museum, Oslo | ||
In the Bar | 1890 | Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main | ||
In the Café | 1890 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Woman in Evening Landscape | 1890 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Evening. Melancholy | 1891 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
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.[2]
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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. | |
Puberty | 1894–95 | National Museum, Oslo | ||
Anxiety | 1894 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Separation | 1896 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Summer Night. The Voice | 1896 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Felix Auerbach | 1906 | Other pictures of Auerbach, a physicist | Unknown | |
Self-Portrait against Red Background | 1906 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
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 | |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 1906 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | 1906 | She was the younger sister of Friedrich Nietzsche | In a museum in Oslo | |
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | 1906 | Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
Albert Kollmann | 1906 | Other pictures of Kollmann | In a museum in Oslo | |
Desire | 1906–07 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
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 | |
The Harbour in Lübeck | 1907 | Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland | ||
The Coast near Lübeck | 1907 | National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic | ||
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 | |
Self-Portrait in Profile | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Female Portrait | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Portrait of an Old Man | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Old Man in Warnemünde | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Street in Warnemünde | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Women and Children in Warnemünde | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
The Drowned Boy | 1907–08 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Worker and Child | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Mason and Mechanic | 1907–08 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Bathing Men | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Bathing Men | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Bathing Men | 1907–08 | Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland | ||
The Death of Marat | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
The Death of Marat | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Cupid and Psyche | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Consolation | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Woman with Children | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Cupido | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Weeping Woman | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Weeping Woman | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Weeping Woman | 1907–09 | The Art Museums in Bergen, Norway. Bergen Art Museum (Stenersen's collection) | ||
Weeping Woman | 1907 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Weeping Woman | 1907–09 | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | ||
Olga and Rosa Meissner | 1907 | Kode Bergen (Norway) | ||
Olga and Rosa Meissner | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Zum Süssen Mädel | 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
Jealousy | c. 1907 | In a museum in Oslo | ||
The Sick Child | 1907 | Tate Modern, London | ||
The Sun | 1910–11 | In a museum in Oslo. | ||
Woman with Poppies | 1918–1919 | In a museum in Oslo. |
References
change- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Kåre Bulie. [the drama of nature] "Naturens dramatikk". Klassekampen. 2024-05-08. P.26
Other websites
change- Biography from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Munch Museum
- Gallery Munch - Løten Archived 2020-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Munch at artcyclopedia
- Catalogue raisonné of Edvard Munch's paintings. Archived 2009-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Edvard Munch Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Interpol's page Archived 2006-03-26 at the Wayback Machine 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 Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine