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Biography of Edvard Munch

By daniricci

  • Edvard Munch was born in Löton, Norway

    Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863, in Löton, Norway
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    Biography of Edvard Munch

  • Munch moved with his family to the city of Oslo

  • his mother died of tuberculosis

  • His sister Sophie also died of tuberculosis

  • His one brother died of pneumonia

  • Munch began attending a technical college to study engineering but left just a year later when his interest in art overtook his interest in engineering.

  • He enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design.

  • He rented a studio with six other artists and entered his first show, at the Industries and Art Exhibition.

  • His father died

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    He lived mainly in France, funded by state scholarships, experiencing the most p+roductive, and troubled, period of his artistic life.

  • The Scream painted

    The Scream painted

  • He nearly died of influenza

  • Edvard Munch died

  • Munch's The Scream sold for more than $119 million at Sotheby's in New York

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