“the study of the soul, that is to say the study of my own self”
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
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culture · Norwegian painter (1863–1944) · painter · graphic artist · printmaker · draftsperson · architectural drafter · also Edvard Munch, E. Munch, Munch, edv. munch, Eduard Munch
Born 12 December 1863 · Died 23 January 1944 · Q41406
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I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.
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2026· 5 entries
“I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”
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“My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.”
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The Guardian: Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory: the bitter truth behind the Freia frieze
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The Art Newspaper: Edvard Munch’s chocolate factory series shines a light on the public artist he wanted to be
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2025· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
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Artnet: Harvard Art Museums Receives Landmark Gift of Edvard Munch Artworks
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2024· 2 entries
The Irish Times: Edvard Munch’s artistic outlook: ‘There should be pictures of real people who breathed, who suffered, felt, loved’
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The Yale University Art Gallery hosted Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression which examined the prints of both artists and "…how these artists suffered from—and attempted to cope with—the anxieties of their age
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2023· 2 entries
Observer: The Scream of Nature: Munch and Reflections on the Anthropocene at The Clark
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Munch's Dance on the Beach was the object of an accord between the Glaser heirs and the heirs of Thomas Olsen, a Norwegian shipowner and Munch's neighbour and collector
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Why we’re all still screaming for Edvard Munch
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2021· 1 entry
New York Post: Edvard Munch wrote hidden ‘madman’ message on ‘The Scream’
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2018· 3 entries
Phys.org: The Scream: What were those colorful, wavy clouds in Edvard Munch's famous painting?
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Artnet: Edvard Munch Was Also an Experimental Photographer—See His Startling, Spooky Images Here
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Hyperallergic: Edvard Munch’s Little-Known, Highly Personal Photography
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2017· 1 entry
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, was an exhibition of Munch's work created over his career, including 16 self-portraits
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2016· 1 entry
The Neue Galerie, New York City, hosted the exhibition, Munch and Expressionism, which "…examined Edvard Munch's influence on his German and Austrian contemporaries
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2014· 2 entries
“I wanted the decorations to form a complete and independent world of ideas, and I wanted their visual expression to be both distinctively Norwegian and universally human”
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It was suggested that the Aula paintings have a value of at least 500 million kroner (approx $111 million USD in 2025)
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2013· 1 entry
Four of Munch's paintings were depicted in a series of stamps by the Norwegian postal service, to commemorate in 2014 the 150th anniversary of his birth
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2012· 2 entries
A claim for The Scream from the heirs of Hugo Simon was rejected as it went to auction
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Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett restituted three drawings by Munch to the heirs of Glaser, a Jewish collector forced into exile by the Nazis
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2008· 1 entry
The Basel Fine Arts Museum rejected a claim for Munch's Madonna, a lithograph of a nude in black, red and blue, from the heirs of the Jewish collector Curt Glaser
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2007· 1 entry
Munch's Summer Night at the Beach was returned to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler, who was forced to flee the Nazis with her Jewish husband in March 1938, after Hitler's annexation of Austria
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2004· 2 entries
From the Munch Museum in Oslo, but recovered in 2006 with limited damage
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Another version of The Scream, along with one of Madonna, was stolen from the Munch Museum in a daring daylight robbery
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2003· 1 entry
Comparing the painting with other great works, art historian Martha Tedeschi wrote:
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1944· 1 entry
Died 1944-01-23.
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1940· 1 entry
The Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government
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1937· 1 entry
"For all we care, those pre-historic Stone Age culture barbarians and art-stutterers can return to the caves of their ancestors and there can apply their primitive international scratching
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1932· 1 entry
Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932).
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1914· 1 entry
Munch was finally commissioned to decorate the Aula and the work was completed in 1916
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1911· 1 entry
The final competition for the decoration of the large walls of the University of Oslo Aula (assembly hall) was held between Munch and Emanuel Vigeland
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1909· 1 entry
His work became more colorful and less pessimistic
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1908· 1 entry
Forced him to give up heavy drinking, and he was cheered by his increasing acceptance by the people of Kristiania and exposure in the city's museums
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1907· 1 entry
Turned his attention again to human figures and situations
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1906· 2 entries
Munch was invited and displayed his works with theirs
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Painted the screen for an Ibsen play in the small Kammerspiele Theatre located in Berlin's Deutsches Theater, in which the Frieze of Life was hung
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1902· 1 entry
Displayed his works thematically at the hall of the Berlin Secession, producing "a symphonic effect—it made a great stir—a lot of antagonism—and a lot of approval
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1900· 1 entry
Also turning away from her considerable fortune, and moved to Berlin
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1899· 1 entry
Munch began an intimate relationship with Tulla Larsen, a "liberated" upper-class woman
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1897· 2 entries
Munch returned to Kristiania, where he also received grudging acceptance—one critic wrote, "A fair number of these pictures have been exhibited before
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Munch bought himself a summer house facing the fjords of Kristiania, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway
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1896· 2 entries
Munch moved to Paris, where he focused on graphic representations of his Frieze of Life themes
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Created his first woodcuts—a medium that proved ideal to Munch's symbolic imagery
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1894· 3 entries
Enlarged the spectrum of motifs by adding Anxiety, Ashes, Madonna and Women in Three Stages (from innocence to old age)
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Drachmann wrote of Munch: "He struggles hard
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Embarked on engraving directly onto copper and, largely self-taught and without formal instruction, created numerous masterpieces in this medium
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1892· 1 entry
Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition, the society's first one-man exhibition
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1889· 1 entry
Munch presented his first one-man show of nearly all his works to date
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1886· 1 entry
Gustav Wentzel and other young Realists encircled Munch and accused him of being a "madman"; another critic Johan Scharffenberg stated that because Munch derived from an "insane family" his art was also "insane
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1883· 1 entry
Munch took part in his first public exhibition and shared a studio with other students
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1881· 1 entry
Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, one of whose founders was his distant relative Jacob Munch
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1879· 1 entry
Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry and mathematics
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1864· 1 entry
When Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fortress
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1863· 2 entries
Born 1863-12-12.
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In a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch, the son of a priest
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