Edvard Munk 1863 -1944 Norwegian painter chart theatrical

Edvard Munk (1863 -1944), Norwegian painter, chart, theatrical artist Мунк

Edvard Munk gave birth in the having many children monogynopaedium of military doctor. Childhood of Edvarda was absolutely joyless. In extreme old age an artist remembered: «Illness, madness and death, were black angels, fly to my cradle, to accompany me during all life» .

Young maid, kindling a stove

About it, perhaps, wrote the known picture of «Scream» (from a cycle there is «Frisian of life» ) Munk: «A sun went away straight in a bottom – skies became red, as though blood. I felt a scream, piercing nature» .

Alarm

Fear

In 80 th Edvard renounced from religion, he was busy at the searches of other system of values. He considered that the world soother, and people in him are a senseless anomaly. He became a radical individualist, sure in that he to itself can provide immortality through an art. Self-portrait

Self-portrait with a cigarette An artist got education at Royal school of drawing (1881 -1886) and workshop of K. Kroga (1882 -1883) in Oslo. From 1880 Munk worked in France where, tested influence of postimpressionists. Then he lived in Germanium and Italy.

His world view was formed under influence of the Scandinavian writers of –simvolists, therefore theme of loneliness, fading and death found a reflection in his creation.

Sick child

Sick girl.

Dying room

Melancholy

Loneliness

Jealousy

On the break of ages Munk wrote «Calvary» , which the crucified artist, uplifted above crowd, is represented on, with the lines of person, reminding the lines of artist.

Girls on a bridge.

Star night

Moonlit Night

Snow

Old trees.

Summer night

Ash

Parting

Vampire

Dance of life

Self-portrait with the bottle of Автопортрет с бутылкой вина wine 1906, Музей Мунка, Осло

Fertility

Star night

Street Lafayett

Creation of Munka very originally. He is considered the pioneer of expressionism, but here in his works it is possible to see symbolism, and a decorativeness is modern, and elemental dynamics of fovizm. And statement : « I write not that see, and, that saw» , later the leader of future surrealisms caught up Andre Breton.