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 enthralled by the vast display of modern European art, including the works of three artists who would prove influential: Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — all notable for how they used color to convey emotion.

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.

He tells them to go back to Vykkers Labs ( particularly appalling for Munch ) to save their respective species.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

Munch appears on the Norwegian 1, 000 kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork.

The Scream by Edvard Munch ( 1893 ), which inspired 20th-century Expressionists

Overtly inspired by the so-called German Expressionist painters -- Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- and other expressionist artists such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch.

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.

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 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 is a staunch believer in individual rights and occasionally finds that something he has to do in the line of duty goes against his sense of morality.

The older brother, Fredrik Olsen, had been involved in a legal process against his younger brother concerning the The Scream and other Munch works that had been collected by their father, Thomas Fredrik Olsen.

Holocaust deniers have come forth with evidence claiming that the Mengele-esque " experimentation " documents used in the film by Renee Firestone against Dr. Hans Munch are actually almost identical to similar documents discovered featuring Irene Zisblatt, which describe the results of a stool sample.