- Oslo Cathedral School
- Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Edvard Munch built an intensely personal but widely resonant visual language around love, jealousy, illness, anxiety and death. His Frieze of Life brought recurring figures and situations across painting and print, while later work expanded into landscape, portraiture and monumental commissions.
Painting; drawing; printmaking; photography
Artist Films
Edvard Munch | TateShots
Works in Collections
The Girl by the Window
1893 · Oil on canvas
96.5 × 65.4 cm (38 × 25 3/4 in.); Framed: 110.5 × 79.4 × 8.9 cm (43 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
The Sick Child I
1896 · Transfer lithograph printed from two stones in pale blue and black ink on ivory wove paper
Image: 42 × 57.2 cm (16 9/16 × 22 9/16 in.); Sheet: 48.3 × 63.5 cm (19 1/16 × 25 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Major Works
- 1885–86The Sick Child
- 1890Night in Saint-Cloud
- 1892Evening on Karl Johan
- 1893The Scream
- 1893–94Vampire
- 1894–95Madonna
- 1894–95Puberty
- 1899–1900The Dance of Life
- 1901Girls on the Bridge
- 1911The Sun
Interviews & Writing
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