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Young Girls on a Bridge is the title of twelve works by Edvard Munch produced over the course of his lifetime, particularly between 1886 and 1927. [1] They all show a bridge in Åsgårdstrand , a bathing station on the Oslofjord , where the artist spent several summers, a very short season in Norway. [ 2 ]
Edvard Munch was born in a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch, the son of a priest.Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura, a woman half his age, in 1861.
Death and the Child is a composition created by Edvard Munch in 1889. [1] [2] Since 1918 it is located in the Kunsthalle Bremen. It depicts a little girl at her mother’s deathbed who is looking at the viewer in a fearful manner. A second, thus far unknown painting of the artist was discovered underneath the canvas in 2005.
The Kiss by the Window (or Kissing by the Window or simply The Kiss) is an 1892 oil-on-canvas painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, now in the National Gallery of Norway. [1] It forms part of his series known as The Frieze of Life, which treats the cycle of life, death and love and was produced between 1893 and 1918. [citation needed]
Love and Pain is an 1895 painting by Edvard Munch; it has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch. [1] The painting depicts a man and woman embracing, with the woman kissing the man on his neck. Munch painted six different versions of the same subject between 1893 and 1895.
The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det syke barn) is the title given to a group of six paintings and a number of lithographs, drypoints and etchings completed by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch between 1885 and 1926. All record a moment before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie (1862–1877) from tuberculosis at 15. Munch returned to this ...
This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia ...
In fact the artist wrote afterwards on a lithograph of the work "I felt our love lying on the earth like a heap of ash". In 1925, at the age of 62, Munch produced a second more impressionistic version of the painting which hangs in Oslo's Munch Museum. If the incident portrayed in the painting was of a personal nature, it had clearly left its mark.