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

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

Peter Andreas Munch was born in Christiania ( now Oslo ).

His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

Munch grew up at Gjerpen parsonage, where his father was parish priest of the Church of Norway.

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.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

Christian Munch also instructed his son in history and literature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

Munch also received his father's ire for his relationship with Hans Jæger, the local nihilist who lived by the code " a passion to destroy is also a creative passion " and who advocated suicide as the ultimate way to freedom.

Munch also began to favor a shallow pictorial space and a minimal backdrop for his frontal figures.

Munch admitted to the personal goals of his work but he also offered his art to a wider purpose, " My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life — it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.

Munch also produced multi-colored versions of " The Sick Child " which sold well, as well as several nudes and multiple versions of Kiss ( 1892 ) Many of the Parisian critics still considered Munch's work " violent and brutal " but his exhibitions received serious attention and good attendance.

" Munch almost gave in to Tulla, but fled from her in 1900, also turning away from her considerable fortune, and moved to Berlin.

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.

The Orchestra has also had many distinguished guest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Morton Gould, Walter Hendl, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, André Previn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Slatkin, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Strauss, George Szell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruno Walter, and John Williams.

The City of Oslo promoted an architectural competition for a new Munch Museum in the area of Bjørvika, a new urban development were the Oslo Opera House is also located.

The Casgrain building also houses the Munch Box.

He also worked with Herbert von Karajan at Lucerne as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied with Charles Munch at Tanglewood.

Critically praised ( although frequently struggling in the ratings ), the show was more of an ensemble piece, focusing on the activities of the unit as a whole ( although significant characters such as Detective Frank Pembleton and Detective John Munch, who has also appeared on the various Law & Order shows, among others, became popular with viewers ).

Munch would also appear on the TV series Law & Order on NBC in which it had one episode which began on that series in New York City and concluded in Baltimore on Homicide: Life on the Street.

He played in various neighborhood bands like The Knobs which included Kenny, and was also in the Munch Puppies.

Like Watkins ' other films, Edvard Munch uses a docudrama approach ; scenes from Munch's life are re-enacted by a large cast ( mostly Norwegian non-professional actors ), but there is also a voiceover narration by Watkins, and there are moments when the characters speak directly to camera, as if being interviewed about their own lives or their opinions of Munch.

While primarily known as a poet, McGrath has also written a play, " The Autobiography of Edvard Munch " ( produced by Concrete Gothic Theater, Chicago, 1983 ); a libretto for Orlando Garcia's experimental video opera " Transcending Time " ( premiered at the New Music Biennalle, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009 ); collaborated with the video artist John Stuart on the video / poetry piece " 14 Views of Miami " ( premiered at The Wolfsonian, Miami, 2008 ); and translated the Aristophanes play The Wasps for the Penn Greek Drama Series.

Briscoe also develops a friendship with one of the few featured Jewish police officers during his tenure, John Munch ( Richard Belzer ), despite Munch's initial resentment when he discovers Briscoe had slept with Gwen Munch, one of Munch's ex-wives.

When the show launched in 2004, Walkers's Monster Munch was the main sponsor ( which also previously sponsored SMTV Live from 2002 to 2003 ).

" Following season nine, in which Munch appeared in just over half of the episodes, Belzer reiterated his mystification at the development, but also seemed to want to tone it down: " It's like yanking the tonsils out of the gift horse if I complain too much.