Edvard Munch Research Paper

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Norway on December 12, 1863 and died on January 23, 1944. From 1892-1895 Munch resided in Berlin, and from 1896-1897 he resided in Paris. Over the next few years Munch continued to move around eventually settling in Norway in 1910. In the 1880’s, Munch created several pieces of art and continued to actively paint until the early 1920s, shortly before he passed away.(why stop) The artwork he created had an extremely large influence on German Expressionism.
Munch’s childhood was somewhat of a tragic one. When he was five his mother passed away, and at the age of fourteen his oldest sister passed away, both as a result of tuberculosis. Munch’s father and brother also passed away while he was still young and another one of his sisters became mentally ill while he was still in his youth. These tragic events had a major influence on the themes surrounding his art work. These events also shaped the rebellious attitude and behavior he had against the conventional and conservative society of artists and writers which dominated Oslo during his youth.() Early in life, Munch began to develop an interest in painting. Oslo’s
Munch’s work was authentic, inventive, and it conveyed his personal emotions and interpretation of the world. Munch’s deep and original style with art began in 1892. He developed a distinct, latent style in his art that was characterized by a more liberal approach to color and brushwork. His images portrayed anxiety, loneliness, dread, and the complexity of emotions relating to human sexuality. Edvard Munch did not want to paint nature as a photographic reproduction, but rather create art that contributed something to humanity. Munch's paintings lacked movement, but his work is filled with explosive power and existential anxiety. He favored themes portraying sickness, death and