EDVARD MUNCH: THE MODERN EYE
EDVARD MUNCH: THE MODERN EYE Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was born when the American Civil War was at its height and he died just before the end of World War Two. His life can be said to straddle all the main events of early modernity. Munch was born in Christiania, Norway and began his art career in Christiana ( Oslo's original name) as a central figure in Christiania's artistic bohemia. In this early period he completed formative works especially The Sick Child (1886) based on his sister's early death. Subsequently Munch moved to Paris and Berlin where he was involved with the Expressionist and Symbolist movements in art. Munch was on the fringes of Die Brücke (The Bridge), an art movement of primitive and expressionist artists based on a small group of architecture students from Dresden but he never became a fully fledged member. Indeed although he was associated with various movements he was never an instigator but merely an associate. The exhibition Edvard Mu