Page "Edvard Munch" Paragraph 40

The outbreak of World War I found Munch with divided loyalties, as he stated, " All my friends are German but it is France that I love.

" In the 1930s, his German patrons, many Jewish, lost their fortunes and some their lives during the rise of the Nazi movement.

Munch found Norwegian printers to substitute for the Germans who had been printing his graphic work.

Given his poor health history, during 1918 Munch felt himself lucky to have survived a bout of the Spanish Flu, the worldwide pandemic of that year.