EDVARD MUNCH
1863- 1944, Loten, Adalsbruck, Norway
On the 23rd January, 78 years ago, died the Norway's most famous painter.
During his life he has remained pratically unknow to most of the main countries in the world. But, six years after his dead, New York staged a retrospective of his fabulous works and things changed. He became so famous as a rock star.
"The scream", in which a human figure claps its skull a swirling sunset, is now so recognisable as Monet's water lilies, Picasso's Guernica or Van Gogh's sunflowers.
His childhood was very traumatic considering that his mother and favourite sister died of tuberculosis, another sister with schizophrenia, and his father suffered from depression.
The result was that Munch struggled with mental illness.
Now, Norway built a palatial museum on the Oslo Fjord to celebrate Edvard Munch. One of the biggest institutions in the world devoted to a single artist where we can see almost 50.000 related objects, paintings, sculptures, prints and photos.
In this page is also possible to appreciate his talent as a surrealist and impressionist painter.
