Munch, Edvard

(12/12/1863 Loiten-1/23/1944 Ekely) (Norway)

   Painter, graphic artist, etcher, lithographer, and woodcut printmaker. Studied at the Tegneskole in Kristiana, at Frits Thaulow's Friluftsakademi at Modum, and trained in sculpture by J. Mid-delthun. Renowned Symbolist artist, best known for "The Scream," he had considerable influence on early modern art. Like several other Symbolists, he produced works with sexual themes.

   Reproductions: Girl and death; Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 47 . Jealousy; Brusendorff, 1966b: n.p. [B] / Brusendorff, 1960b: fig. 84 [B]. The kiss; 1895; drypoint and aquatint; Kronhasuen, 1968: p. 106 [B] / Bentley, 1984: p. 106 [B] / Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 85 [B] / Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 187 [B] / Haught 1992: p. 24 [B] / Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 81 [B]. Madonna; Melville, 1973: fig. 205 [B] / Brusen- dorff, 1960d: p. 99 [B]. Man and woman; 19121915; watercolor and charcoal; Tilly, 1986: p. 45 / Haught 1992: p. 43 [B]. [Nude woman with floating sperm frame]; Kronhasuen, 1968: p. 67 [C]. Omega and the bear; 1909; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 257 [B] / Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 98 [B]. Puberty; Lucie-Smith 1997: p. 55 [C]. Two girls; Brusendorff, 1966a: n.p. [B]. Under the yoke; 1896; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 150 [B] / Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 100 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 10: pp. 38-41; J. Dobai, "Randbe-merkungen zum Thema der Erotik bei Munch und eini-gen Zeitgenossen," in Edvard Munch: Probleme, Forschun-gen, Thesen, ed. by H. Bock and G. Busch (Munich: Prestel, 1973): pp. 77-98; Arve Moen, Edvard Munch (Oslo: Norsk Kunstreproduksjon, 1957); A. Valkonen, "Erotika ja Kuolema," Taide 16, 20 (1975): pp. 28-35; ThB XXV 1931: p. 265; Vollmer III 1956: p. 446.