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.

Artistic movement that replaced the Impressionism in the early 20th century.

Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphics and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists tried to advance to the basic elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colors in large areas and with the emphasis on line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness they fought against the artistic taste established by bourgeoisie.

The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke, among others.

Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.

The Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.

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