Artist: Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)
Nationality: Norwegian
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter, known primarily for his unsettling painting The Scream. He studied in Oslo and after a brief tour around Europe, settled there. He encountered the work of Gauguin and Van Gogh while in Paris in 1908. Along with painting, Munch created etchings, lithographs and woodcuts, all which focused on agitated and disturbing imagery with life and death as primary themes. The disconcerting nature of his work caused disturbance in Berlin in 1892, where his exhibition was forced to close.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (26)
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Edvard Munch, Die Katze (The Cat), 1897
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Edvard Munch, Head of a Child, 1905
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Edvard Munch, Ibsen with Lighthouse, 1897
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Edvard Munch, Woman (The Sphinx), 1899
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Edvard Munch, Landscape, 1908 - 1909
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Edvard Munch, Tete-a-Tete (or, Plauderstunde), 1895
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Edvard Munch, Portrait of Frau Helge Rode, 1908 - 1909
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Edvard Munch, Portrait of Suzanne Cassirer, 19th - 20th century
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Edvard Munch, Berlin Girl (Woman with gray-green eyes), 1906
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Edvard Munch - Anxiety 1896 woodcut The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - The Storm 1893 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - The Scream 1895 lithograph The Art Institute of Chicago Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - The Kiss IV 1897-2002 woodcut The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Madonna 1894-1902 lithograph The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Vampyr (Vampire) 1895 hand-colored lithogr Des Moines Art Center Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - De ensomme (The Lonely Ones) 1899-1917 woodcut The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - The Sick Child 1894 drypoint Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Two Women on the Shore 1898 woodcut The Art Institute of Chicago Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Girl Looking out the Window c. 1892 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Two People (The Lonely Ones) 1894 drypoint The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - De ensomme (The Lonely Ones) 1899 woodcut The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Girls on a Bridge c. 1904 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Norwegian
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Edvard Munch - Det syke barn I (The Sick Child I) 1896 lithograph The Museum of Modern Art Norwegian
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Elliot & Fry, Portrait of Edvard Grieg, early 20th century
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Maximilian Munch, Design for a Ceramic Service, circa 1925 - 1935
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Artist: James Ensor Title: L"Intrigue Date: 1911 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.37-1/4 x W.44-1/4

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Modern Museum: Munch by Himself
Hardly any other artist has portrayed himself so ruthlessly and exposed himself as Munch does in his self-portraits that centre on issues of identity, exploring his role as artist and human being in society and focusing on his relationship to life...
Modern Museum: Munch at Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet has a large and representative collection of Munch's graphics, which contains many of his most important pieces. The present exhib...
Scandinavia House: Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print
This exhibition brings together twenty-five of the Norwegian artist’s most powerful compositions, vividly demonstrating his innovative creative process and unique artistic vision. All works were chosen from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection of...
Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Edvard Munch. 1912 in Germany
Born in Norway in 1863, Munch moved in 1909 to a secluded spot in Kragorø on the southern coast of Norway, where he found his quietest studio so far since his temporary studio in Hvitsten on the Oslo Fjord. His apprenticeship and journeyman years ...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
National Museum of Fine Arts: Impressionism and the North
There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and artists in the Nordic region. The exhibition shows paintings done by Paul Gauguin during his time in Copenhagen in the mid-1800s. In that same period, Danish artist Theodor Philipsen w...
Museum of Modern Art: ModernStarts: Places
Landscape painting between 1880 and 1920 ranged from idealized and allegorical depictions of nature, as seen in the ...
JEWISH MUSEUM: Berlin Metropolis: Jews And The New Culture, 1890-1918
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Göteborg Museum of Art: Paul Gauguin: A Distant Paradise

Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: Horst Janssen: Early Etchings 1958 – 1964
He was a pupil of Paul Wunderlich, from whom he learned etching. His art was influenced earlier by Edvard Munch and later by ‘art brut’ and Jean Dubuffet. His life was marked by numerous marriages, outspoken opinions, alcoholism, and selfl...
Galerie St. Etienne: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
"COMING OF AGE" also includes works by Erich Heckel, E.L. Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and others. At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase between childhood...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
Colville Place Gallery: Marty St James: Betweeness
A number of my previous performance and video art works were to do with a sense of staticness and in contrast my static image print works are often to do with movement. This allows me an artistic freedom within the form and content. Marty St....
National Gallery: Telling Time: The relationship between time and the still image.
One area explored in the exhibition in the Sunley Room is how artists have depicted or described movement, from freezing instants of imbalance to the use of the blur. Another technique was employed by one of the most sustained of all the invest...
Frick Collection: When is a Work of Art Complete: Prints by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and More
In the process of printmaking, an artist will normally take proof impressions as he makes changes to his plate. These proof states, as will be apparent through many groupings in the exhibition, can establish an exact record of the image in the pr...
South London Gallery: Anne Katrine Dolven: Four Film and Video Works
The carefully composed, painterly images are shot in real time and left unedited. Unfolding slowly, recorded scenes provide viewers with clues about the wider scenario, but reveal nothing conclusive. Sound is significant throughout, the combinatio...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
National Gallery of Art: Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades
The exhibition opens in conjunction with The Unfinished Print and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
A Question of Faith arrives in Wellington direct from the prestigious Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where large audiences experienced the New Zealand artist's work, often for the first time. "We are very proud that City Gallery Wellington is the ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
Walker Art Center: Alice Neel: Portraits of People and Places
Born in suburban Philadelphia, Neel (1900-1984) led a rich and colorful life filled with friends, lovers, family, fellow artists, and a strong sense of community and social activism. She became a painter at a time ...
De Appel: The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less: Ritsaert ten Cate
With works by: Tiong Ang/Roy Villevoye, Erzebet Baerveldt, Francis Bacon, Jan Banning, Johannes Bosboom, Joost van den Broek, Ritsaert ten Cate, Merlijn Doomernik, Marlene Dumas, Albert Eckhout, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Dominique Ghesquière, Gi...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
National Gallery of Art: Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The museum, which opened in 1876 to house the Prussian king's collection of paintings and sculpture, is currently closed for renovations as part of a larger ...

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