When was edvard munch born and died

Edvard Munch was born in Norway in and, with the notable exception of the two decades from to spent traveling, studying, working and exhibiting in France and Germany, he lived there until his death in He was active as a painter from the s until shortly before his death, though the greater part of his oeuvre, and certainly the better-known part, was produced before the early s.

During his lifetime of work, he made one of the most significant and enduring contributions to the development of Modernism in the twentieth century. In his themes and subject matter, in the manner in which he gave voice to these, and in his handling of paint and the graphic media (especially woodcut and lithography), Munch was profoundly original and radical.

He is one of the handfuls of artists who have shaped our understanding of the human experience and transformed the ways in which it might be visually expressed.

Munch's nomadic and self-imposed exile's life in Europe, from hi