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Edvard Munch

Also known as E. Munch, Munch, edv. munch, Eduard Munch

Norwegian painter (1863–1944)

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Edvard Munch was a male artist from Norway. He was born in 1863 and died in 1944. His works are featured in various collections, including a Commons gallery and creator page. He is referenced by 1,099 other encyclopedia articles.

Munch’s creative output is documented across multiple databases. Open Library lists 141 works by him, including titles such as *Edvard Munch, the graphic work* and *Mennesket og kunstneren Edvard Munch*. Crossref records five works, while Europeana Sparql lists 36. On Last.fm, he has 287 listeners and a playcount of 503, with LGR listed as a similar artist.

A quote attributed to Munch states, "I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic."

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1863
Died: 1944
Works: 141

Top works

Edvard Munch, the graphic work
ムンク版画名作展
Munch/Nolde
Mennesket og kunstneren Edvard Munch
Munch and after Munch

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Norway
Active from: 1863-12-12
Active to: 1944-01-23

Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 287
Total plays: 503

Similar artists

LGR

via Last.fm · Edvard Munch

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,256x
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,668x
Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex
· 2005 · cited 3,520x
Advanced LIGO
· 2015 · cited 3,125x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall. [as model for his painting 'Morning', 1884]”
“Life here [in Paris, 1885] is quite different. You hardly ever see a dog on a lead; you come across little wagons being pulled by dogs that are often so small that you can't imagine how on earth they manage to shift such enormous weights. You see shepherdesses in the middle of the street herding goats and sometimes playing on their flutes. I think I'll go to the Louvre and the Salon today.”
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
“I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.”
“When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.”
“I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence — there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety — and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Edvard Munch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/ MUUNK; Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.

His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state ('soul painting'); from this emerged his distinctive style.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edvard Munch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.