Similarly, his conducting technique as described by contemporary sources appears to set the groundwork for the clarity and precision favoured in the French School of conducting right up to the present, exemplified by such figures as Pierre Monteux, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, Paul Paray, Charles Munch, André Cluytens, Pierre Boulez and Charles Dutoit.

Later, when Homicide went off the air in 1999, Detective Munch ends up leaving Baltimore to move to New York, and becoming a permanent character ( as New York City Detective Munch ) on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

13, introduced in Duisberg, Germany, in 1934 and soon taken up by Charles Munch, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Hans Swarowsky, and other leading conductors.

Munch has his own abilities, such as using his sonar to control the Snoozers from the control panel, as well as pick up grabbers.

Fritz Munch sums up historical military practice before 1800: " The essential points seem to be these: In battle and in towns taken by force, combatants and non-combatants were killed and property was destroyed or looted.

SVU and Homicide have Munch growing up in different places.

In a deleted scene from the 3rd season of Homicide, Munch mentions to both Meldrick Lewis and Tim Bayliss that he had an uncle who lived up north but was unsure of what became of him — this is presumably Andrew.

Gwen shows up at ' The Waterfront ' bar to inform Munch her mother has died.

For example, he and Munch are partners for nearly a year before he opens up about his former partner's death.

The Munch Bunch are a group of unwanted vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts who were swept to the corner of a shop but ran away together and set up home in and around an old, forgotten garden shed.

The family moved to Christiania ( now Oslo ) in 1864 when Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fortress.

At thirteen, Munch had his first exposure to other artists at the newly formed Art Association, where he admired the work of the Norwegian landscape school.

In 1881, Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Christiania, one of whose founders was his distant relative Jacob Munch.

That year, Munch demonstrated his quick absorption of his figure training at the Academy in his first portraits, including one of his father and his first self-portrait.

In 1892, Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition, the society's first one-man exhibition.

" In 1899, at the age of thirty-four, Munch began an intimate relationship with Tulla Larsen, a " liberated " upper-class woman.

Munch spent most of his last two decades in solitude at his nearly self-sufficient estate in Ekely, at Skøyen, Oslo.

Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.

When Munch died, his remaining works were bequeathed to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen ( it opened in 1963 ).

The Munch Museum currently serves at Munch's official Estate, and has been active in responding to copyright infringements, as well as clearing copyright for the work, such as the appearance of Munch's The Scream in a 2006 M & M's advertisement campaign.

After the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China ended, Munch was the first Western artist to have his pictures exhibited at the National Gallery in Beijing.

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, " the Modern Eye ", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

* Munch at Olga's Gallery — large online collection of Munch's works ( over 200 paintings )

* Munch at artcyclopedia

* Edvard Munch at WikiGallery. org

The 2008 episode " Authority " of Law and Order: SVU has Detective Munch mentioning Milgram's experiment in reference to corporate training at HappiBurger ( a McDonalds-like restaurant ).

) Munch visited and painted in Nice and Monte-Carlo ( where he developed a passion for gambling ), and rented a villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1891.

Klimt invited Schiele to exhibit some of his work at the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he encountered the work of Edvard Munch, Jan Toorop, and Vincent van Gogh among others.

The term " Burger Munch " was not only used at the Palo Alto munch, but was also used in Boston in 1994 and possibly earlier, meetings being held at Mr Bartley's Burger Cottage in Harvard Square.

Her influences included Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele ; later she destroyed all her paintings from this early period, and for a time studied philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.

Forests, fjords and islands await them at the place where Edvard Munch found peace and relaxation.

In 1879, Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry, and math.

In 1896, Munch moved to Paris, where he focused on graphic representations of his " Frieze of Life " themes.

Munch returned to Christiania in 1897 where he also received grudging acceptance, where one critic wrote, " A fair number of these pictures have been exhibited before.

In 1903-4, Munch exhibited in Paris where the coming Fauvists, famous for their boldly false colors, likely saw his works and might have found inspiration in them.

Munch and his four brothers and sisters, including his twin sister, were raised and attended public schools in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri where he was actually born.

They spent summers in Door County, Wisconsin, where Munch was impressed by the clarity of light and color on the shore of Lake Michigan.

They finally settled in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where Munch developed a detailed realistic style of painting.

On August 16, 1916, he married Anna Margaret Johnson in Iowa where she lived with her maternal grandparents and had taken their name, Munch.

Through his periodic residence at Skagen, where he arrived for the first time in 1879, he had great influence on Anna and Michael Ancher, and provided early support to Edvard Munch.

It is explained that Munch had retired from the Baltimore Police Department, taken his pension, and moved to New York to join a sex crimes investigation unit, where he was eventually given a promotion to sergeant.

One possible scenario has Munch being born in New York and moving to Baltimore where he attended Pikesville High School for four years.

* A Muppet representation of Detective Munch appeared in the Sesame Street sketch " Law & Order: Special Letters Unit " where he was portrayed by David Rudman.

Notably Luther stars Idris Elba, the actor who played Stringer Bell in the HBO drama The Wire where Munch previously cameoed.

Petter Olsen sold the painting to raise funds to build a museum in Hvitsten, Norway, where Munch once owned property and near where Olsen has an estate, to house the rest of his father's collection.