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Edvard Munch who was born 1863 in Löten, Norway, the second child of five children. In 1864, Edvard moved to the city of Oso, with his other four siblings and mother. Where his mother died four years later after from tuberculosis and his sister died from the same thing in 1877 at the age of fifteen. His father Christian became emotional over the time when he starts to suffer from an agitated depression. Then more familial tragedies started to happen, one his sister spent most of her life in an institutionalized for mental illness; then his brother Peter died at the age of thirty from pneumonia. He suffered a lot from a child. Later in 1879, he attended a technical college for engineering for a year, then realize that art was his passion. In 1881, he enrolled at Royal School of Art of Design. Then he…

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian printer and an expressionist painter. Who was credited with one of the most recognized pre-Expressionist paintings, titled the Scream. Munch was born in a small village called Adalsbruk in Löten, Norway on December 12 1863 to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch. Munch was the second oldest of five children, with an older sister Sophie and three younger siblings, Peter, Laura, and Inger. In 1864, Munch’s father Christian who was a doctor, moved his family to…

Edvard Munch was born in Loten, Norway on December 12, 1863, but he and his family moved to Oslo when he was only a year old. In Oslo, he experienced many personal tragedies. When he was five, his mother died of tuberculosis, and his sister died of the same disease just ten years later. Another one of his sisters was institutionalized for most of her life for mental illness, and his brother died of pneumonia at the age of thirty. Raising his children alone and suffering from mental illness,…