Edvard munch

the life of munch

  • munch was born

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    munch's childhood

  • munch and his family moved to oslo

  • munch's mother died of tuberculosis

  • his brother died of pneumonia at the age of 30

  • his siter, Sofie, died of tubercolosis when she was fifteen

    another one of his sister spent the most of her life institutionalized for mental ilness
  • munch began attending a technical college to study engerneering

  • his interest for art overtook his interest for engeneering and 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.

  • munch's father die

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    munch lived mainly in france

  • munch painted the scream

  • munch received a scolarship and travelled to paris

  • munch's drinking became out of conttrol

  • munch undertook a series of paintings caled the frieze of life (melancholy, anxiety,jealousy, despair, anxienty and the scream) for the baerlin exhibition

  • he was hearing voices and suffering paralysis , he coolapsed and he checked himself to private sanitarium

  • he got out from the sanitarium and he drank less, he was eager to get back to work, but, must of his works was behind him

  • he moved to ekely in norway

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    he bagan painting lanscapes, right up his death

  • he nearly died of influenza, but he recovered and survived

  • munch died