Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch is regarded as the pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognised in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art, that helped artists to express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them. Munch was born in 1863, and before long he had come to know the intensity of emotional pain. His father …

…Munch was an extremely powerful painter in that he was able to communicate his deepest emotions and thoughts through his work. Although he was plagued by death and suffering throughout his life, he managed to use this to give himself the best qualities he could as a painter. He enabled the greatest problems of his time to live on today, as well as placing an emphasis on emotions that can hardly be described with words.