Edvard Munch Biography

Edvard Munch, Painter
Occup.Painter
FromNorway
BornDecember 12, 1863
Ådalsbruk, Norway
DiedJanuary 23, 1944
Oslo, Norway
CauseHeart attack
Aged80 years
Edvard Munch, born upon December 12, 1863, in the small village of Ådalsbruk in Loten, Norway, was a prominent Symbolist painter, extending designs like Naturalism, Impressionism, as well as Expressionism throughout his career. His best-known job, The Scream (1893), has actually turned into one of the most iconic images of world art. Munch's darker motifs as well as challenging subject earned him a credibility as an agent provocateur of his time.

Munch's moms and dads, Christian Munch as well as Laura Catherine, came from an affluent Norwegian family. His dad functioned as a clinical officer as well as an ardent religious guy, which significantly influenced Edvard's childhood. Unfortunately, Munch's mommy passed away of consumption in 1868, followed by his precious sister, Johanne Sophie, a decade later. This personal loss profoundly impacted Munch mentally as well as played a substantial role fit his artistic passions in darker styles of human experience, such as illness, moody, and also death.

After finishing his formal education, Munch relocated to Oslo (then called Kristiania) in 1881, where he started examining art at the Royal School of Art as well as Design. He expanded fond of the popular bohemian circles in the city, where naturalistic as well as modern-day ideas, typically critiquing the conventional nature of the Norwegian culture, were honestly discussed. It remained in this environment that Munch satisfied noticeable writers like Hans Jæger, whose concepts on "the brand-new moral" would greatly impact the young musician.

In 1885, Munch traveled to Paris and later to Berlin, where he was exposed to the progressive art scenes that would considerably affect his style. Right here, he created his distinct and initial visual language rooted in Symbolism, commonly utilizing dynamic colors as well as altered shapes to stimulate psychological experiences-- specifically those related to love, death, and also fear. By 1892, Munch was asked to exhibit his work in Berlin, which caused a considerable detraction because of the questionable nature of his paintings, as well as the exhibit was too soon closed. Regardless of this setback, the debate only aided to enhance his global direct exposure.

Throughout his career, Munch faced numerous health problems, consisting of partial blindness in one eye, which compelled him to restrict his color combination. In 1908, he endured an anxious malfunction and also was hospitalized for eight months.

Munch returned to Norway in 1909, where he proceeded paint, often producing multiple variations of his best-known jobs-- the Frieze of Life collection. In 1916, he bought a private estate in Ekely, near Oslo, where he remained to live as well as work until his fatality. Munch's later job was much more muted in tone as well as focused on landscapes as well as portraits of the people around him. During the 1930s, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, Munch's work was declared "degenerate art", leading to the confiscation and also destruction of numerous of his paintings from German museums.

Edvard Munch passed away on January 23, 1944, in his Ekely estate. He bequeathed a big component of his job to the city of Oslo, which currently develops the facility of the Munch Museum. Today, Munch is taken into consideration a pioneer of the Expressionist movement and also an ideas to an entire generation of musicians, eventually safeguarding his location as one of the most visionary and influential painters of the modern age.

Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Edvard, under the main topic Death.

Related authors: Harald Sohlberg (Painter), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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30 Famous quotes by Edvard Munch

Small: The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas
"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas"
Small: Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash"
Small: It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable ar
"It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it"
Small: In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in
"In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color"
Small: I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise,
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me"
Small: Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light"
Small: A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself"
Small: From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity"
Small: For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to expr
"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art"
Small: Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes"
Small: The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men"
Small: The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual
"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose"
Small: No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who b
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love"
Small: In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat
"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head"
Small: I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell"
Small: Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me t
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life"
Small: Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder
"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder"
Small: When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness
"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness"
Small: Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted
"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness"
Small: I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punis
"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell"
Small: By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate a
"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life"
Small: One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
"One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor"
Small: Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul"
Small: I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw"
Small: To die is as if ones eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like bei
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction"
Small: This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealers art-a
"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution"
Small: Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"
Small: I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and
"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available"
Small: I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people,
"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter"
Small: Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throug
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life"