Edvard Munch

Artist report by Skylar Kagan

Biographical Facts 1-10 bullet points

1. Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863 and died January 23, 1944.
2. He was born in Löten, Norway.
3. He studied art the Royal School of Art and Design.
4. Edvard Munch was the second of five children.
5. He studied technical engineering for only one year in 1979, and then pursued his
passion for art.
6. His art was based on his emotions and his poor mental state.
7. He began to suffer from mental illness in the early 1900s and checked himself into a
private sanitarium and then checked out when he got it under control.
8. His family had a history of poor health and mental illnesses.
9. Edvard Munch never got married and had no children.

Interesting Facts
1. Munch’s most famous painting The Scream sold for 119.9 million dollars, a record-
breaking price.
2. Critics found many of him painting offensive and judges Munch’s technique.
3. Many of Munch’s paintings were about death.
4. Once he died, he had 1,008 paintings, 4,443 drawings, 15,391 prints.
5. He said his anxiety and illness were his inspirations in his artwork.
6. A lot of his life he spent in Paris and Berlin.
7. His favorite sister, Sophie, died when she was 15 from tuberculosis.
8. His mother also died when he was 5 as well as his brother and his father, and his other
sister developed severe mental illness.

Gallery 6-10 paintings

The Sick Child, 1885 The Scream, 1893 Night in Saint Cloud, 1890 Vampire, 1893
Anxiety, 1894 The Storm, 1893 By The Death Bed, 1996 Starry Night, 1893

Spring Day on Karl Johan Street, 1891 The Mystery of a Summer Night, 1892

My Thoughts about the Work

Edvard Munch uses dark colors in his work, this makes sense because he had poor mental
health. He also uses space, well so that the artwork is eye pleasing and has a unity to it. The
emotion is evident in all of his artwork and he expresses it well by using different colors and
hues. He uses the same art style in all of his artwork, it is kind of abstract. Most of his artwork
tend to have a feeling of sadness with it. I like how I can associate an emotion with each of his
artworks really well.

Sources

https://www.biography.com/artist/edvard-munch
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edvard-Munch
https://www.edvardmunch.org/edvard-munch-paintings.jsp