Biografia Edvard Munch, Traducciones de Inglés

¡Descarga Biografia Edvard Munch y más Traducciones en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! BIOGRAPHY OF EDVARD MUNCH Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Edvard Munch was born on 12 December 1863 in Loeiten, Norway. He suffered the loss of his loved ones at a very young age, and the spectre of death, which filled his childhood, would accompany him throughout his life, becoming one of the recurring themes in his works. Son of Christian Munch, a military doctor. When he was not yet five years old, his mother, Laura Cathrine, died of tuberculosis. After spending a year at the Technical School in Oslo, where he had begun studying engineering, in 1880 he decided to devote himself to painting and enrolled at the city's School of Drawing. In 1885 a scholarship enabled him to continue his studies in Paris. He soon developed a highly personal style, based on emphasising the expressive force of the line, reducing forms to their most schematic expression and making a symbolic, non-naturalistic use of colour, hence his classification as a symbolist painter. From 1892 to 1908 he lived in Germany, mainly in Berlin, although he made frequent trips to Norway and Paris. In Berlin in 1892 he presented an exhibition which had to be withdrawn owing to the scandal it caused and which led to the creation of the Berlin Secession. Although his early paintings were influenced by the Impressionists, as he was well acquainted with the work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, he was soon inclined towards the idea of capturing feelings and externalising the sensations of human anguish and loneliness. His mature period is impregnated with that "tragic feeling" which was so characteristic of the Romantics, but extracted from the context of Romanticism itself and taken to its ultimate consequences, giving it an "absolute" value, as something from which man cannot free himself. His most emblematic work is The Scream (1893, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo), one of the paintings that has most vividly reflected human horror and anguish. The figure in the foreground expresses immeasurable terror. The Norwegian painter's anguish at loneliness, his despair at not finding meaning in life and his relationship with the abyss are intensely reflected in his work.