Art · 1863–1944
Born: 12 December 1863 · Died: 23 January 1944 · Age: 80
Norwegian Expressionist painter of The Scream, whose haunting, emotional images explore anxiety, love and death
Did you know?He painted four different versions of his most famous masterpiece using various mediums including oil and pastels.
Edvard Munch painted fear, love and loss as no one had before. His childhood in Kristiania was shadowed by illness, and his mother and sister died young. He turned those memories into raw, vivid images. The Scream, with its twisted figure under a blood-red sky, became one of the most recognised pictures in the world. He made several versions in paint and print. His Frieze of Life explored the stages of human feeling. He helped open the way to Expressionism.
Edvard Munch ( MUUNK; Norwegian:; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
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Norwegian painter, 1863–1944
Edvard Munch was born in Ådalsbruk, Løten, on 12 December 1863.
He grew up in Kristiania, now Oslo.
He painted the first version of The Scream in 1893.
He left his works to the city of Oslo.
Career highlights
Did you know?One version of The Scream sold for almost $120 million in 2012.
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