As 11 must-see fabrics by Munch: images and analysis

Two top representatives of Expressionism, Edvard Munch was born in Norway, in 1863. He had a very disturbed personal history, but he ended up being able to overcome these worldly difficulties in order to find no two better Western painters.

Discover now eleven paintings of throwing or fôlego of the expressionist genre. For a didactic questão, we adore the exhibition of fabrics from a chronological order.

1. A criança doente (1885-1886)

Painted between 1885 and 1886, on canvas A criança doente carrega muito da infância by own painter. Ainda young, Munch lost me and Sophie for a tuberculosis. In spite of my painter being a doctor, I have done nothing to prevent the death of his wife and daughter. O own artist has a marked childhood. O cenário marked so much Munch that this same image was painted and repainted over 40 years (the first version was made in 1885 and the last in 1927).

2. Melancholy (1892)

Not in the first place, one observes-a homem sozinho in meio to a praiana landscape. On the canvas, he is part of a series of paintings made up of dark figures and as the same anguished protagonist. Say it is about Jappe Nilssen, Munch's close friend, who was going through an unhappy period in his love life. A landscape of Åsgårdstrand, Norway's coastline. The original painting is at the National Gallery Munch, in Oslo.

3. O scream (1893)

Painted in 1893, O shout was a work that was definitively established as a Norwegian painter. With just 83 cm by 66 cm, the fabric was the protagonist of a home in deep despair and anxiety. Ao founded the image, it is also possible to observe two other distant homens. Or céu painted by Munch is disturbing. The artist has four versions of this same image, first of them in 1893, made in oil, and as well as three with different techniques. Out of four versions, three are in a museum and one was acquired by an American entrepreneur who disbursed about 119 thousand dollars to carry out raw work for home.

Read to detailed analysis of the square O scream.

4. A tempestade (1893)

Painted in 1893, not the same year as O grito, on canvas, as well as a forerunner, it exhibits people who tampam our own ouvidos. A tempestade portrays a landscape of Åsgårdstrand, a Norwegian coast vila onde or a traditional painter passar seus verões. The square has 94 cm by 131 cm and belongs to the MOMA (Nova Iorque) collection.

5. Amor e dor (1894)

O painting originally called Amor e dor, it was also known as O vampiro and was exhibited for the first time in Berlin in 1902. A cloth scandalized a society for representing a woman at the same time biting and hugging a homem. O quadro was quite criticized by the public and by specialized criticism in a week of exibição to show it was locked up.

6. Ansiedade (1894)

Painted in 1984, or a picture shows an exemplary expressionist movement. Partilhando muitas semelhanças as famous O grito, a canvas exibe or same as a scary painted in tons of vermelho-orange. So feições two people are green and desperate, like olhos arranged. We all wear black suits and the homens wear cartolas. The work has 94 cm by 73 cm and currently belongs to the Munch Museum collection.

7. Madonna (1894-1895)

Painted between 1894 and 1895, a controversial canvas Madonna supposedly portrays Maria, a mãe de Jesus, from an unusual perspective. To Maria de Munch she appears as a woman nua e a vontade e não as a demure and chaste senhora as she customarily used to be seen. It is about an oil on canvas measuring 90 cm by 68 cm. In 2004 an image was roubada do Museu Munch. Two years after the work was recovered as a small hole considered irreparable.

8. A dance gives life (1899)

A fabric A dança da vida, painted in 1899, was used as a background for a dance performed in the year. Note-the image was founded a year ago not sea, when the people dance even years. It is to come back to the presence of two lonely women, one in each painting point. A landscape exposta é a de Åsgårdstrand, a Norwegian coastline. Or face part of the collection of the Munch Museum, in Oslo.

9. A fumaça do trem (1900)

Painted in 1900, on canvas and an oil painting with 84 cm by 109 cm. Fez is part of a series of landscapes painted by artist not beginning of the secular interlinking nature and products of human intervention. A smoke released and a position of the trem fazem as the viewer was impressed that the composition is, by fate, in motion. The fabric belongs to the collection of the Munch Museum, in Oslo.

10. Costa com a casa vermelha (1904)

Painted in 1904, a canvas was newly traced as a theme to the Norwegian coastal village of Åsgårdstrand, where the artist passed the remaining months of the year. Feita in oil ink, in paint tem 69 cm by 109 cm in size. A picture does not have a human figure, it hardly portrays the landscape of the coast. A painting is currently not at the Munch Museum, in Oslo.

11. Workers on the road from home (1913-1914)

Painted between 1913 and 1914, on canvas and huge, measuring 222 cm by 201 cm and represents the workers at the end of the file, returning home. O quadro portrays a crowded street, a mass of people eating tired, all in very similar suits and chapéus. O face work is currently part of the collection of the Munch Museum.

Find the biography of the painter Edvard Munch

He was born on December 12, 1863 in Loten, Norway. Edvard was the second son of a military doctor (Christian Munch) and a housewife (Cathrine). He lives I do not belong to a large family: you have three irmãos and a irmã.

You unfortunate painter começaram logo I give up, when Munch has five years with my morreu de tuberculose. A tia, irmã da mãe, Karen Bjolstad, helped to protect the family. In 1877, Sophie, irmã de Munch, also morreu de tuberculose.

In 1879, Edvard entered the Technical College to become a painter, not now, not the following year, he left or became formal to dedicate himself to a career as a painter. In 1881, he entered the Royal School of Art and Design to deepen his talents. As an artist he works with painting, lithography and woodcut.

He got to the place, in 1882, his first study of painting. A location escolhida foi Oslo. Not later, he was invited to participate in the Oslo Exhibition of Outstanding, where it will be more visible.

Despite being born in Norway, he passed away part of the life in Germany. He was also influenced by French art (especially Paul Gauguin), in 1885 he traveled to Paris.

He was two great names for German and European expressionism. He has a history of unsettled life: a tragic childhood, problems like alcoholism, troubled love affairs.

His work reflects, in a certain way, the dramas of the artist himself and also his political and social arrangements.

"We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint beautiful pictures that hang against the walls of two rooms. We want to create, or at least, establish the foundations of an art that gives something to humanity. An art that turns and envelops. An art created from the most intimate heart of somebody. "

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In 1892, he achieved special fame thanks to the date of the Verein Berliner Künstler exhibition, one week after the opening. He has exhibited his Vampire canvas, which caused both criticism from the public and criticism. No next year, in 1893, he painted or his most famous painting: O shout.

Foi, in a certain way, a victim of Nazism. Between the end of two years 1930 and the beginning of two years 1940 he had his works withdrawn from two German museums by order of Hitler, who argued that they did not value German culture.

Munch does not soften only with political persecution, it also develops vision problems that later or will prevent me from painting. He died eighty years and one year out, not on January 23, 1944, in Norway.

Or Museu Munch

Also known as Munchmuseet, many works by the Norwegian painter are sheltered by no museum in Oslo that carries or belongs to him. The institution was inaugurated in 1963, precisely after the birth of Edvard Munch.

The paintings left for the museu foram directed thanks to the will of the painter, which did about 1100 paintings, 15,500 prints, 6 sculptures and 4,700 sketches of various heavy objects (books, movable, Photographs)

In 2004, or museu sofreu duas grandes baixas, as fabrics O grito e Madonna foram roubadas. Both foram recovered later.

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