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Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter (1863-1944) · Norway · Artists · Died at 80

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The face in The Scream - agonized, hands-to-skull, mouth open against a blood-orange sky - is the single most recognized image of modern anxiety. Munch painted what he heard walking at sunset in Kristiania: "the enormous, infinite scream of nature."

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1944Died23 January 19441932Goethe Medal for Art and ScienceAward1898“By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.”In their wordsIn: Diary Saint Cloud, 1898; Munch, as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and

1892“Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear.”In their wordsJanuary 1892OKK 1760 (Nice, January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London,

1890“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one's mood..”In their wordsQuote of Munch from: T 2770, (1890); as cited in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and

1889“And I live with the dead - my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France]..”In their wordsa note from Saint Cloud, 1898; as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London,

1885“Life here [in Paris, 1885] is quite different.”In their wordsQuote in Munch's letter (1885); as cited in Edvard Munchs Brev, Familien, Oslo: Tanum, 1949, p. 57

1880“I thought I should make something - I felt it would be so easy - it would take form under my hands like magic.”In their words1880 - 1895

1863Born12 December 1863

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  1. By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.

    1898, In: Diary Saint Cloud, 1898; Munch, as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and, Own words

  2. Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear.

    Jan 1892, OKK 1760 (Nice, January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London,, Own words

  3. Nothing ceases to exist - there is no example of this in nature.. .There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained.

    Jan 1892, T 2760 (January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much - behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 119, Own words

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Goethe Medal for Art and Science1932
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav

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Munch grew up under the twin shadows of illness and the fear he'd inherit the mental condition that ran in his family. At the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania, he fell in with nihilist Hans Jæger, who pushed him toward "soul painting" - rendering his own emotional and psychological state. Travel sharpened the tool: in Paris he absorbed Gauguin, van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec's command of color; in Berlin he painted Strindberg and began The Frieze of Life, a cycle on love, anxiety, jealousy, betrayal. Between 1893 and 1910 he made four versions of The Scream in paint and pastel, plus prints; one pastel would become the fourth most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Fame and wealth didn't settle him - he couldn't commit to marriage, and a breakdown in 1908 forced him off alcohol. His final decades were quiet, working in privacy, and though the Nazis banned his art, most of it survived the war.

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Norway
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1863 to 1944 · aged 80

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