Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker born on 12 December 1863 in Loten, Norway. Munch spent plenty of time in and out of hospitals due to his weak immune system. He picked up a hobby of drawing and painting to pass the time. His fascination with art grew, and he consequently taught himself oil painting methods.
Munch traveled to Paris in 1889 and studied in the studio of Leon Bonnat. He also exhibited his work at the Exposition Universelle that same year. Subsequently, Munch participated in the first solo exhibition of the Union of Berlin Artists in 1892. Despite the controversy and criticism that Edvard’s work provoked, his artistic career flourished during this period.
In 1908, Munch was admitted to a hospital for eight months due to his excessive drinking. On his discharge from the hospital, Much returned to Norway, where he lived in isolation and quietness. During this period, his style drastically changed, showing a lighter palette and less dark themes. Munch died on 23 January 1944 in Oslo, Norway.
What was Edvard Munch Known For?
Edvard Munch was known for painting works centered around death, isolation, and pain. Losing close family members at a young age mainly influenced his choice of subject matter. Munch employed an unconventional method of coloring and infused a melancholic feeling into his oil paintings and prints.
Who was Edvard Munch Influenced By?
Edvard Munch was influenced by Edouard Manet, Paul Gaugin, and Henri Toulouse-Latrec. In the early-1880s, Munch received encouragement to paint his personal experiences from philosopher Hans Jaeger. However, Munch’s study trip to Paris later that decade exposed him to the works of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, whose works he copied.
What Art Movement was Edvard Munch Associated With?
Edvard Munch was associated with the Expressionism and Symbolism art movements.
Edvard Munch Artwork
Below are some of the artworks of Edvard Munch
Self portrait with burning cigar
Andreas reading
Berlin girl
Sister Inger
Portrait of the painter Jensen Hjell
Moonlight
Writer Hans Jaeger
Morning
Lady in black
The sick child
Awakening men
Night
Brothel scene
Building the winter studio
By the deathbed
By the window
Children in the street
Girl kindling a stove
Sisters in the garden
Adam and Eve
Ashes
All Edvard Munch Artwork on Artchive
| Artwork Name | Year | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Eye in Eye | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| Fertility II | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Forest | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| Four Ages in Life | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Four girls in Arsgardstrand | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1906 | oil,canvas |
| From Thuringewald | 1905 | oil,canvas |
| Galloping horse | 1910 - 1912 | oil,canvas |
| Girl and Death | 1894 | lithography,paper |
| Girl Combing Her Hair | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| The Death Chamber | 1896 | lithography,paper |
| The Fisherman | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| The Flower of Pain | 1897 | crayon,indian ink,wash,watercolor,paper |
| The Four Sons of Dr. Linde | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| The Girls on the Bridge | 1901 | oil,canvas |
| The Girls on the Bridge | 1918 | woodcut |
| The Hands | 1893 | oil,canvas |
| The Haymaker | 1916 | oil,canvas |
| The Ladies on the Bridge | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| The Lady from the sea | 1896 | oil |
| Girl Kindling a Stove | 1883 | oil,canvas |
| Girls on a Bridge | 1899 - 1900 | oil,canvas |
| Girl Yawning | 1913 | oil,canvas |
| Golgotha | 1900 | oil,canvas |
| Harry Graf Kessler | 1904 | oil,canvas |
| Head of a Dog | 1930 | oil,canvas |
| High Summer II | 1915 | oil,canvas |
| History | 1911 - 1916 | oil,canvas |
| Horse Team | 1919 | oil,canvas |
| Inheritance | 1897 | oil,canvas |
| The Lonely Ones | 1899 | woodcut |
| The Lonely Ones | 1935 | oil,canvas |
| The Lumberjack | 1913 | oil,canvas |
| The Murderer in the Lane | 1919 | oil,canvas |
| The Murderess | 1906 | oil,canvas |
| The Mystery of a Summer Night | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| The Painter Jacob Bratland | 1891 - 1892 | oil,board |
| The Scream | 1893 | pastel,cardboard |
| The Scream | 1895 | pastel,cardboard |
| The Scream | 1895 | lithography,paper |
| Jealousy | 1895 | oil,canvas |
| Jealousy. From the series The Green Room | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Jens Thiis | 1909 | oil,canvas |
| Jurisprudence | 1887 | oil,canvas |
| Kiss IV | 1902 | woodcut,wood |
| Lady from the sea | 1896 | oil |
| Landscape. Maridalen by Oslo | 1881 | oil,board |
| Lübeck Harbour with the Holstentor | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Ludvig Karsten | 1905 | oil,canvas |
| The Scream | 1910 | cardboard,tempera |
| The Sick Child (later) | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| The Sick Child | 1885 - 1886; Norway | oil,canvas |
| The Sick Child II | 1896 | pastel,paper |
| The Sun | 1911 - 1916 | oil,canvas |
| The Three Stages of Woman (Sphinx). | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| The Village Street | 1905 - 1906 | oil,canvas |
| The Voice | 1893 | oil,canvas |
| The Voice / Summer night | 1896 | oil,canvas |
| The Wave | 1921 | oil,canvas |
| Madonna | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| Man and Woman | 1898 | oil,canvas |
| Man and Woman I | 1905 | woodcut,board |
| Man and Woman II | 1912 - 1915 | oil,canvas |
| Man Bathing | 1899 | woodcut,board |
| Meeting | 1921 | oil,canvas |
| Melancholy | 1911 | oil,canvas |
| Melancholy | 1892; Norway | oil,canvas |
| Model in Front of the Verandah | 1942 | oil,canvas |
| Model on the Couch | 1924 - 1928 | oil,canvas |
| The Wedding of the Bohemian, Munch Seated on the Far Left | 1925 | oil,canvas |
| The Women | 1895 | drypoint,paper |
| The yellow log | 1912 | oil,canvas |
| Thorvald Stang | 1909 | oil,canvas |
| Three Girls on the Jetty | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| Towards the Forest II | 1915 | woodcut,board |
| Train smoke | 1900 | oil,canvas |
| Trees on the Shore | 1904 | oil,canvas |
| Vampire | 1895 | oil,canvas |
| Vampire II | 1895 - 1902 | crayon,tusche,paper |
| Moonlight | 1893 | oil,canvas |
| Moon Light | 1895 | oil,canvas |
| Moonlight on the Shore | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| Morning | 1884 | oil,canvas |
| Mother and Daughter | 1897 | oil,canvas |
| Night | 1890; France | oil,canvas |
| Nude | 1896; Paris, France | oil,wood |
| Nude I | 1913 | oil,canvas |
| Old Aker Church | 1881 | oil,board |
| Old Man in Warnemunde | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| View over the Rover at St.Cloud | 1890; France | oil,canvas |
| Walter Rathenau | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| White Night | 1901 | oil,canvas |
| Winter, Kragero | 1912 | oil,canvas |
| Woman in Blue (Frau Barth) | 1921 | oil,canvas |
| Woman on the Verandah | 1924 | oil,canvas |
| Women on the Bridge | c.1935 | oil,canvas |
| Women on the Bridge | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Worker and Child | 1908 | oil,canvas |
| Workers in the Snow | 1913 | oil,canvas |
| Old Trees | 1923 - 1925 | oil,canvas |
| Paris Nude | 1896; Paris, France | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Inger Munch | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of the Painter Jensen Hjell | 1885 | oil,canvas |
| Professor Daniel Jacobson | 1909 | oil,canvas |
| Rain | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Red and White | 1899 - 1900 | oil,canvas |
| Red House and Spruces | 1927 | oil,canvas |
| Red Virginia Creeper | 1898 - 1900 | oil,canvas |
| Rosa Meissner | 1907 | |
| Workers on Their Way Home | 1913 - 1915 | oil,canvas |
| Workers on their way home I | 1918 - 1920 | charcoal,crayon,watercolor,paper |
| Writer Hans Jaeger | 1889 | oil,canvas |
| Young Man and Prostitute | 1893 | charcoal,gouache,paper |
| Young woman on the shore | 1896 | aquatint,zinc |
| Adam and Eve | 1918 | oil,canvas |
| Albert Kollmann | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Rose and Amélie | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait | 1881 - 1882 | oil,board |
| Self portrait | 1886 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait | 1926 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza | 1919 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait at Ekely | 1926; Norway | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait at Professor Jacobson's Hospital | 1909 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait Beneath Woman's Mask | 1891 - 1892 | oil,board |
| Self-Portrait During Eye Disease II. | 1930 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait During the Eye Disease I | 1930 | oil,canvas |
| Alma Mater | 1911 - 1916 | oil,canvas |
| Anxiety | 1894; Oslo, Norway | oil,canvas |
| Ashes | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| Ashes II | 1896 | lithography,watercolor,paper |
| At the Coffee Table | 1883 | oil,canvas |
| August Stindberg | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| Aunt Karen in the Rocking Chair | 1883 | oil,canvas |
| Awakening Men | 1911 - 1916 | oil,canvas |
| Bathing Man | 1918 | oil,canvas |
| Bathing Men | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait I | 1895 - 1896 | lithography,paper |
| Self-Portrait in Bergen | 1916 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait (in distress) | 1919 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait in Front of Blue Sky | c.1908 | |
| Self-Portrait in Hell | 1903 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait in the Garden, Ekely | 1942 | oil,canvas |
| Self-portrait. The night wanderer | 1923 - 1924 | oil,canvas |
| Self-portrait with bottle of wine | 1906 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait with Brushes | 1904 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette | 1895 | oil,canvas |
| Berlin Girl | 1906 | crayon,paper |
| Brothel Scene. Zum sussen Madel | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Building the Winter Studio. Ekely | 1929 | oil,canvas |
| By the Deathbed (Fever) | 1893 | pastel,board |
| By the Deathbed (Fever) I | 1915 | oil,canvas |
| By the Roulette | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| By the Window | 1940 | oil,canvas |
| Children in the Street | 1915 | oil,canvas |
| Christen Sandberg | 1909 | oil,canvas |
| Christmas in the Brothel | 1904 - 1905 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait with Cod's Head | 1940 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait with Hand under Cheek | 1911 | oil,canvas |
| Self-Portrait with Striped Pullover | 1940 - 1944 | oil,canvas |
| Selvportrett | 1926 | |
| Separation | 1894 | oil,canvas |
| Separation | 1896 | oil,canvas |
| Sister Inger | 1884 | oil,canvas |
| Snow Falling in the Lane | 1906 | oil,canvas |
| Spring | 1889 | oil,canvas |
| Spring Day on Karl Johan Street | 1890 | oil,canvas |
| Kiss | 1897 | oil,canvas |
| Consolation | 1894; Norway | drypoint |
| Count Harry Kessler | 1906 | oil,canvas |
| Couple on the Shore (from the Reinhardt Frieze) | 1906 - 1907 | canvas,tempera |
| Cupid and Psyche | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Dagny Juel Przybyszewska | 1893 | oil,canvas |
| Death in the sickroom | 1893 | oil,canvas |
| Death of Marat I | 1907 | oil,canvas |
| Despair | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| Edvard Munch - Garden in Taarbaek | c.1905; Copenhagen, Denmark | oil,paint |
| Evening on Karl Johan Street | 1892 | oil,canvas |
| Spring Plowing | 1916 | oil,canvas |
| Stanislaw Przybyszewski | 1895 | canvas,tempera |
| Starry night | 1922 - 1924 | oil,canvas |
| Street in Asgardstrand | 1902 | oil,canvas |
| Street Lafayette | 1891; Paris, France | oil,canvas |
| Summer Night at Aasgaardstrand | 1904 | oil,canvas |
| Summer Night (Inger on the Shore) | 1889 | oil,canvas |
| Tavern in St. Cloud | 1890; France | pastel,paper |
| The Artist and His Model | 1919 - 1921 | oil,canvas |
| The Day After | 1894 - 1895 | oil,canvas |
| Model By The Wicker Chair | 1919-21 | Oil On Canvas |
| Puberty | 1894 | Oil on Canvas |
| Madonna | 1894-95 | Oil On Canvas |
| The Hands | 1893 | Oil On Canvas |
| Vampire | 1893 | Oil On Canvas |
| Self-portrait After The Spanish Flu | 1919 | Oil On Canvas |
| Sister Inger | 1892 | Oil On Canvas |
| Death In The Sickroom | c. 1895 | Oil On Canvas |
| Separation | 1894 | Oil On Canvas |
| The Scream | 1895 | Lithograph |
| Old Trees | c. 1923-25 | Oil On Canvas |
| Night In St. Cloud | 1890 | Oil On Canvas |
| Workers Returning Home | 1916 | Watercolor, Crayon And Charcoal |
| Workers Returning Home | 1913-1915 | Oil On Canvas |
| Meeting | 1921 | Oil On Canvas |
| Count Henry Kessler | 1904 | Oil On Canvas |
| Evening On Karl Johan | 1892 | Oil On Canvas |
| Jealousy | 1895 | Oil On Canvas |
| Self-portrait With Burning Cigarette | 1895 | Oil On Canvas |
| Ashes | 1894 | Oil On Canvas |
| The Storm | 1893 | Oil on Canvas |
| Red Creeper | 1900 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Dead Mother | 1899 - 1900 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Murderer | 1910 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Dance of Life | 1899 - 1900 | Oil on Canvas |
| Between Clock and Bed | 1940-1943 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Scream | 1893 | Oil, Pastel, and Tempera on Cardboard |
