The people behind the art

Edvard Munch

1863 to 1944

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter (1863–1944). Their work is associated with Symbolism; Expressionism. Their recorded places of work include Oslo; Berlin; Åsgårdstrand.

4 artworks in the archive

Born: 1863
Died: 1944
Nationality: Norway
Birthplace: Ådalsbruk
Died in: Ekely; Oslo

In the archive

Artworks by Edvard Munch

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Norway1895

Puberty

Artist: Edvard Munch

A naked girl sits on the edge of a bed, her hands clasped over her lap, staring directly at the viewer. Edvard Munch painted this canvas in 1895, and it now belongs to the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. This short tour looks at what the painting shows and how its stark, simple choices shape the encounter between the girl and the person standing before her.

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Norway1894

Ashes

Artist: Edvard Munch

A canvas in Bergen carries two names in its own record: a sketch for Edvard Munch's Ashes, and Forest. This tour examines what is actually documented about the object, and where the evidence stops.

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Anxiety

Artist: Edvard Munch

A docent-led reading of Edvard Munch's 1894 painting Anxiety, in which a crowd of pale-faced figures advances toward the viewer beneath a blood-red sky. The tour follows the composition, the scholarly interpretations attributed to Gerd Woll, Uwe M. Schneede, Arne Eggum and Reinhold Heller, and Munch's own diaristic account of a panic attack on Karl Johans gate.

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Forest

Artist: Edvard Munch

A close look at Edvard Munch's Forest, an 1894 oil sketch in Bergen that carries two titles in the record: Forest, or Skogsinteriør, and Sketch for Ashes. The evidence settles the object, the date and the custody but not the subject, and this visit works within that limit.

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Biography sources

Wikidata: Edvard Munch