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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.
Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
Edvard Munch was born in a rustic farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, to Christian Munch, the son of a priest.
Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).
The family moved to Christiania ( now Oslo ) in 1864 when Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fortress.
Munch wrote, " My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious to the point of psychoneurosis.
In 1881, Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Christiania, one of whose founders was his distant relative Jacob Munch.
" At that time, contrary to many of the other bohemians, Munch was still respectful of women, as well as reserved and well-mannered, but he began to give in to the binge drinking and brawling of his circle.
Art is complete once the artist has really said everything that was on his mind, and this is precisely the advantage Munch has over painters of the other generation, that he really knows how to show us what he has felt, and what has gripped him, and to this he subordinates everything else.
Munch was particularly inspired by Gauguin's " reaction against realism " and his credo that " art was human work and not an imitation of Nature ", a belief earlier stated by Whistler.
Munch was pleased with the " great commotion ", and wrote in a letter: " Never have I had such an amusing time it's incredible that something as innocent as painting should have created such a stir.
Already, Munch was showing a reluctance to part with his paintings, which he termed his " children ".
Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: " I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set ; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood.
Larsen was eager for marriage, and Munch begged off.
When the Fauves held their own exhibit in 1906, Munch was invited and displayed his works with theirs.
With more income, Munch was able to buy several properties giving him new vistas for his art and he was finally able to provide for his family.
Munch was seventy-six years old.
Nonetheless, Munch was highly influential, particularly with the German Expressionists, who followed his philosophy, " I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart.

Munch and by
The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 1905.
After their mother's death, the Munch siblings were raised by their father and by their aunt Karen.
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 appears on the Norwegian 1, 000 kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork.
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.
Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm by Edvard Munch
* 2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $ 120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
Vampyren, " The Vampire ", by Edvard Munch
Mendes gave Janney a book of paintings by Edvard Munch.
* May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US $ 120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, founded in 1976, focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, as well as pieces by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain.
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.
The Scream by Edvard Munch ( 1893 ), which inspired 20th-century Expressionists
The Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, which shows contemporary glass art from all over the world, was established in 1985 by Ebeltoft glass artists Finn Lynggaard and his wife, Tchai Munch.
His Gloria for soprano solo, choir and orchestra was first performed simultaneously in Boston conducted by Charles Munch and in Paris conducted by Georges Prêtre.
In 1949, Koussevitzky was succeeded by the Alsatian conductor Charles Munch.
Munch was succeeded in 1962 by Erich Leinsdorf, who served as music director for seven years until 1969.

Munch and modern
He and other members of the group Die Brücke greatly admired the work of Edvard Munch, and aimed to make a " bridge " between traditional neo-romantic German painting and modern expressionist painting.

Munch and European
The engagement was greeted with enthusiasm by the critics and the public, and Munch invited Monteux to join him the following year in heading the orchestra's first European tour.

Munch and art
In contrast to his father's rabid pietism, Munch adopted an undogmatic stance toward art, writing in his diary his simple goal: " in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.
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.
They traveled to Italy together and upon returning, Munch began another fertile period in his art, which included landscapes and his final painting in " The Frieze of Life " series, The Dance of Life ( 1899 ).
With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation.
Abstract artists, taking as their examples the impressionists, as well as Paul Cézanne and Edvard Munch, began with the assumption that color and shape, not the depiction of the natural world, formed the essential characteristics of art.
The Expressionists had many influences, among them Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and African art.
Munch Museum ( Munch-museet ) is an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
His landscapes are layered formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted art historical artists, including: Edvard Munch and Claude Monet to Friedrich and Klimt.
Furthermore as an interesting example of the back-and-forth dynamic that exists between literary ekphrasis and art, in 1896 ( eight years after the play was written ) Norwegian painter Edvard Munch painted an image similar to the one described by Ibsen in a painting he entitled ( unsurprisingly enough ) Lady from the Sea.
His work of this period was influenced by the art of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and then by Max Pechstein, Heinrich Campendonck, Edvard Munch, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
* Edvard Munch ( 1863 – 1944 ), Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art
** Munch Museum an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch
Sigrun Rafter, an art historian at the Oslo National Gallery suggests that Munch intended to represent Mary in the life-making act of intercourse, with the sanctity and sensuality of the union captured by Munch.

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