Edvard Munch - Norwegian Painter

Please see respective galleries for purchase of Edvard Munch prints and/or paintings. You can view many online galleries. All images are from the net. This man was a great artist!

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The Scream is Munch's most famous work and was painted in 1893. Perhaps this painting was his own agony and fear? Munch was a self searching painter who spent the last 20 years of his life as a recluse. His story is a sad one.

Germans invasion came in the 40s when Munch at 76 years old. He feared confiscation of his paintings which were kept in his home. Seventy-one of the paintings which were taken by the Nazis found their way back to Norway. Eleven are still missing. In the 1930s and 1940s, German Nazis labeled his work "degenerate art", and removed his work from German museums. This deeply hurt the antifascist Munch, who had come to feel Germany was his second homeland.

"Munch died in Ekely, near Oslo, on January 23rd, 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. He left 1,000 paintings, 15,400 prints, 4,500 drawings and watercolors, and 6 sculptures to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum (at Tøyen) in his honor. This museum houses the broadest collection of his works. Some of his paintings are at the National Gallery, also in Oslo. The bar Dagligstuen at Hotel Continental in Oslo has a number of good prints."

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