Edvard Munch
The Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was one of the most important precursors of expressionism. His works revolve around the great human tragedies between Eros and death, Munch turned relentlessly and penetrating the deepest human emotions.
The oppressive atmosphere of his most famous work "The scream" was typical of Munch and worked in his art with questions of life especially with fear, despair, melancholy, sadness, death, love and jealousy. In this bleak choice covers can be quite to his biography found: Munch lost mother and sister early and struggled in his life with depression and alcohol. Like hardly artists could Munch to express his state of mind to bring the emotion strong themes. However he painted and appeared his motives but strangely deformed in a very dynamic style of painting with bold colours and his and visual language and his way to symbolically represent the countries in mind. Edvard Munch was a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the summer of 2004 the two most famous paintings by Munch "The scream" and "Madonna", in the most spectacular art theft of our time from the Munch Museum in Oslo were stolen, but in August 2006 the images could be safe again.
The oppressive atmosphere of his most famous work "The scream" was typical of Munch and worked in his art with questions of life especially with fear, despair, melancholy, sadness, death, love and jealousy. In this bleak choice covers can be quite to his biography found: Munch lost mother and sister early and struggled in his life with depression and alcohol. Like hardly artists could Munch to express his state of mind to bring the emotion strong themes. However he painted and appeared his motives but strangely deformed in a very dynamic style of painting with bold colours and his and visual language and his way to symbolically represent the countries in mind. Edvard Munch was a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the summer of 2004 the two most famous paintings by Munch "The scream" and "Madonna", in the most spectacular art theft of our time from the Munch Museum in Oslo were stolen, but in August 2006 the images could be safe again.
