26.+Edvard+Munch+(1853-1944)

**1. Birthplace **
Ådulsbruk in Løten, Norway

**2. Art movement (for example, the Renaissance) **
Expressionism

**3. Where did they study or who did they apprentice with? **
Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania

**4. Who or what influenced their work? **
He was influenced by his emotions as well as post impressionist painters and naturalistic painters.

**5. What made their work unique? Describe their style of artwork. **
Although his early work was reminiscient of earlier painters, he found his own style, highly emotional with much symbolism and synthetically, aesthetically pleasing.

**6. Is there any interesting story of their life you can share? **
His mother died from tuberculosis in 1868, his sister also died of it in 1877. His father died young, in 1889. One of his sisters was declared mentally ill, and Munch was often ill. His brother Andreas was the only sibling to get married, but he died soon after the wedding.

**7. Include a quote by or about the artist. **
"Sickness, insanity, and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle, and have followed me throughout my life." –Edvard Munch

** 10. Most famous works (3 or more) **
The Scream The Sick Child Love & Pain (Vampire) http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/munch.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch