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Edvard
Munch Biography
Edvard Munch (Norwegian,
1863-1944) Undoubtedly the greatest artist of Northern Europe. Munch
stayed in Paris in 1885 and 1889. First exhibited in Oslo in 1892.
An exhibition in Berlin that same year caused uproar. In Berlin, he
met Strindberg and Przybyszewski. He made numerous trips to Germany,
France and Italy. In 1896, in Paris, he met Gaugin, van Gogh and Mallarmé.
He suffered acute depression in 1908. After 1909, he lived mainly
in Norway. As the public is averse to any form of tragic obsession,
his artistic vision has sometimes been condemned or misunderstood.
Like Van Gogh, Munch belongs to the class of those afflicted by profound
anxiety and a sense of revolt, whose creative activity and violent
inspiration are indissociable from a life marked by dramatic events.
Considered one of the precursors of Expressionism, Munch occupies
in the Nordic countries a role as important as that of Cézanne for
the Latin countries.
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