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Edvard Munch
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Welcome boys and girls to our featured Old Master of the month.
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First read the story about the artist and the painting.
Next, study the painting.
Then play our puzzle of the month to see what you learned.
About the Artist:
Nationality: Norwegian
Style: Expressionist
Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863 in Loten, Norway. At 17 years of age he decided to become a painter. He had his first private exhibition in 1889, the same year his father died.
Munch was one of the first artists known as Expressionists. Expressionists would use their artwork to express their inner emotions, not necessarily to paint what they saw.
Like other expressionists, Edvard Munch places his feelings and emotions deep inside in his paintings. He is a very talented artist although he had a lot of sadness in his life.
Edvard Munch, who never married, called his paintings his children and hated to be separated from them. Living alone on his estate outside Oslo for the last 27 years of his life, increasingly revered and increasingly isolated, he surrounded himself with work that dated to the start of his long career.
Upon his death in 1944, at the age of 80, the authorities discovered—behind locked doors on the second floor of his house—a collection of 1,008 paintings, 4,443 drawings and 15,391 prints, as well as woodcuts, etchings, lithographs.
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