Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Edvard Munch and artworks
    Edvard Munch and artworks
    Edvard Munch and artworks
    Ebook177 pages2 hours

    Edvard Munch and artworks

    By Elisabeth Ingles

    4.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief. During his career, Munch changed his idiom many times. At first, influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism, he turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness and death. In the 1892s, his style developed a ‘Synthetist' idiom as seen in The Scream (1893) which is regarded as an icon and the portrayal of modern humanity's spiritual and existential anguish. He painted different versions of it. During the 1890s Munch favoured a shallow pictorial space, and used it in his frequently frontal pictures. His work often included the symbolic portrayal of such themes as misery, sickness, and death. and the poses of his figures in many of his portraits were chosen in order to capture their state of mind and psychological condition. It also lends a monumental, static quality to the paintings. In 1892, the Union of Berlin Artists invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition. His paintings invoked bitter controversy at the show, and after one week the exhibition closed. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled his work “degenerate art”, and removed his works from German museums. This deeply hurt the anti-fascist Munch, who had come to feel Germany was his second homeland. In 1908 Munch's anxiety became acute and he was hospitalized. He returned to Norway in 1909 and died in Oslo in 1944.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781781605684
    Edvard Munch and artworks

    Related to Edvard Munch and artworks

    Related ebooks

    Art For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      MASTERS At Work

      Dec 24, 2020

      MASTERS At Work
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Abstract Expressionist

      Oct 25, 2018

      The Abstract Expressionist
      2 min read

    • Article

      Muse

      Mar 1, 2020

      Muse
      1 min read

    • Article

      Triptych by Sonia Delaunay

      May 6, 2020

      Triptych by Sonia Delaunay
      1 min read

    • Article

      Sigmund Freud And The Play On The Burden Of Representation

      Oct 25, 2018

      In 1989 American Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created the installation Zero & Not on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s death. It marked the beginning of the Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection featuring outstanding i

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Addictive Sketcher

      Nov 27, 2020

      The Addictive Sketcher
      1 min read

    • Article

      3. Value And Drama

      Dec 27, 2019

      3. Value And Drama
      4 min read

    • Article

      Ode to Gray

      Aug 21, 2018

      Ode to Gray
      5 min read

    • Article

      History Of Oil Painting

      Feb 8, 2018

      History Of Oil Painting
      5 min read

    • Article

      Interior VISIONS

      Mar 4, 2019

      Interior VISIONS
      3 min read

    • Article

      7 Lessons From The Impressionists

      Mar 20, 2020

      7 Lessons From The Impressionists
      4 min read

    • Article

      Art at Sea

      Jun 11, 2021

      Art at Sea
      3 min read

    • Article

      Memories Of Paint

      Apr 1, 2020

      Memories Of Paint
      6 min read

    • Article

      My Art Journey

      Nov 29, 2019

      My Art Journey
      5 min read

    • Article

      Paint LIKE SARGENT

      Nov 1, 2019

      Paint LIKE SARGENT
      5 min read

    • Article

      Glazing

      Mar 19, 2021

      Glazing
      6 min read

    • Article

      Alice Neel: How to Persevere and Live the Artist’s Life

      Mar 8, 2017

      “Alice loved a wretch. She loved the wretch in the hero and the hero in the wretch. She saw that in all of us, I think.” –Ginny Neel “The self, we have it like an albatross around the neck.” –Alice Neel In the winter of 1931, a 30-year-old painter

      10 min read

    • Article

      Symphonies Of Color

      Dec 1, 2021

      Symphonies Of Color
      6 min read

    • Article

      Up Close And Personal

      Jul 9, 2021

      Up Close And Personal
      5 min read

    • Article

      Alla Prima

      Aug 9, 2019

      Alla Prima
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Quiet Man

      Mar 1, 2022

      The Quiet Man
      7 min read

    • Article

      William Orpen

      Nov 29, 2019

      William Orpen
      5 min read

    • Article

      1. LINES AND shapes

      Jul 12, 2019

      1. LINES AND shapes
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Edvard Munch and artworks

    4.5/5

    5 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Edvard Munch and artworks - Elisabeth Ingles

      Edvard Munch. Photograph, c. 1902.

      Biography

      1863:

      12 December: born in Løten, Norway, the second child of Laura (born Bjølstad) and Christian Munch, a doctor. There are to be three more children: Andreas, Laura, and Inger.

      1864:

      The family moves to Christiania (Oslo).

      1868:

      Mother dies of tuberculosis at the age of thirty.

      1877:

      Elder sister Sophie dies of tuberculosis at the age of sixteen.

      1879:

      Attends the Technical College in Christiania to study engineering. Produces his first sketches in May.

      1880:

      Takes up painting in earnest; studies in Christiania under Hans Olaf Heyerdahl and Christian Krohg.

      1881:

      Studies at the Royal School of Art and Design under Julius Middelthun.

      1884:

      Morning (A Servant Girl), bought by Frits Thaulow, is Munch’s first real sale. Thaulow gives him money to enable him to visit Antwerp and study in Paris; though he postpones the visit for a year because of illness. Starts an affair with Emilie Thaulow, the wife of a distant cousin.

      1885:

      First visit to Paris. Returns as ‘the first and only Impressionist of Norway’ (Krohg).

      1886:

      Member of avant-garde group ‘Christiania’s Bohemia’.

      1889:

      First solo exhibition. Gains a state scholarship and returns to Paris in October. Studies with Léon Bonnat. Drawn to Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Neo-Impressionists, and the Symbolists. Begins the compilation of The Frieze of Life. Summer at Åsgårdstrand by the sea. Sees his father for the last time, who dies in November.

      1890:

      Returns to Norway via Antwerp. Ten paintings at Autumn Exhibition, including Spring Day on Karl Johan Street. Goes back to France with a renewed scholarship; falls ill.

      1891:

      Stays in Nice to recover from illness. Returns to Christiania in May.

      1892:

      Returns to Nice for the winter. Exhibits in Christiania and is praised by Krohg. Invited to exhibit at the Association of Berlin Artists; his section closed by the organisers as it is deemed ‘scandalous’. Lives on and off in Germany for sixteen years.

      1893:

      Returns to Norway reinvigorated. Works on The Scream. Exhibits with the Berlin Secession.

      1894:

      Starts to make engravings and etchings. New style in monochrome is sharper and more precise than his painting style.

      1895:

      Returns to Norway.

      1896:

      Back in Paris; makes the acquaintance of the Nabis; exhibits his Frieze of Life paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. Designs sets for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. The Revue Blanche publishes lithograph of The Scream. Death of brother Andreas.

      1898:

      Meets Tulla Larsen.

      1899:

      Enters a sanatorium in Norway. The National Gallery in Christiania buys two of his pictures.

      1902:

      Exhibits twenty-eight paintings, including the Frieze of Life series, at the Berlin Secession gallery, along with Hodler and Kandinsky. Disastrous end to his relationship with Tulla Larsen.

      1903:

      Meets Eva Mudocci; stays in Lübeck with the Linde family.

      1904:

      Visits several German cities including Weimar.

      1905:

      Retrospective exhibition in Prague. Dissolution of union of Norway and Sweden: political crisis.

      1908:

      Exhibition in Copenhagen. He suffers a nervous breakdown and checks himself into a clinic. Becomes Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav.

      1909:

      Recovery and return to Norway. Exhibition at Blomqvist Gallery, Christiania.

      1911-1916:

      Murals for Great Hall, Oslo University.

      1912:

      Sonderbund exhibition, Cologne: over 570 works by 160 artists.

      1913:

      Expressionist exhibition, Berlin; graphic works at Armory Show, New

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1