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1863-1944. Norwegian painter and printmaker.
He studied in Paris and Berlin, and his major
works date from the period 1892-1908, when he
lived mainly in Germany. His paintings often
focus on neurotic emotional states. The
Frieze of Life 1890s, a sequence of highly
charged, symbolic paintings, includes some of
his most characteristic images, such as
Skriket/The Scream 1893. He later reused
these in etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts.
Munch was influenced by van Gogh and Gauguin
but soon developed his own expressive style,
reducing his compositions to broad areas of
colour with sinuous contours emphasized by
heavy brushstrokes, distorting faces and
figures. His first show in Berlin 1892 made a
great impact on young German artists. In 1908
he suffered a nervous breakdown and returned
to Norway. Later works include a series of
murals 1910-15 in the assembly halls of Oslo
University.