Edvard Munch

About the Artist

Edvard Munch was born in Løten, Sweden-Norway in 1863 and died in Norway in 1944. He is known for a painting style that crossed the boundary between Symbolism and Expressionism, and he mainly created works on the themes of life, death, and human inner emotion. Munch's body of work strongly reveals fundamental human emotions — especially loneliness, anxiety, and jealousy — and placed importance on the dramatic expression of feeling. He holds a distinctive place for his psychological and symbolic portrayal of the themes of life and death through figure painting. His masterpieces include "The Scream," "The Sick Child," and "The Woman I Want," which clearly demonstrate his emotional and introspective vision. His work was controversial in the art world of the time for its unconventional expression, but it later had a great influence on modern art.