Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in August 2004, and has not yet been recovered.) But Munch considered himself a writer as well as a painter. Munch began painting as a teenager and, in his young adulthood, studied and worked in Paris and Berlin, where he evolved a highly personal style in paintings and works on paper. And in diaries that he kept for decades, he also experimented with reminiscence, fiction, prose portraits, philosophical speculations, and surrealism. Known as an artist who captured both the ecstasies and the hellish depths of the human condition, Munch conveys these emotions in his diaries but also reveals other facets of his personality in remarks and stories that are alternately droll, compassionate, romantic, and cerebral. This English translation of Edvard Munch's private diaries, the most extensive edition to appear in any language, captures the eloquent lyricism of the original Norwegian text. The journal entries in this volume span the period from the 1880s, when Munch was in his twenties, until the 1930s, reflecting the changes in his life and his work. The book is illustrated with fifteen of Munch's drawings, many of them rarely seen before. While these diaries have been excerpted before, no translation has captured the real passion and poetry of Munch's voice. This is a translation that lets Munch speak for himself and evokes the primal passion of his diaries. J. Gill Holland's exceptional work adds a whole new level to our understanding of the artist and the depth of his scream.

The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth

Arts & Photography

MUNCH, Edvard

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

Munch's early paintings reproduced in this volume have their place among the masterworks of modern European art. In their aesthetic quality and psychological content they are only comparable to the paintings of van Gogh and Cezanne.

Edvard Munch: The Early Masterpieces

Schneede, Uwe M.

Individual Artists

W.W.Norton&Company

90 haunting, evocative prints by first major Expressionist artist and one of the greatest graphic artists of his time: The Scream, Anxiety, Death Chamber, The Kiss, Madonna, On the Jetty, Picking Apples, Ibsen in the Cafe of the Grand Hotel, etc. Introduction by Alfred Werner.

Graphic Works of Edvard Munch

Dover Publications

Madonna, Self-Portrait, Anxiety, The Death Bed, The Day After, Melancholy, The Dance of Life, The Scream, and 8 others.

Munch

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Phaidon

Reproductions of the artist's work combine with a biographical sketch to reveal his contributions to the expressionist movement

Edvard Munch

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

This book explores how and why the influential Norwegian artist Edvard Munch exploited late nineteenth-century physiologyas a means to express the Symbolist soul. Munchâ€™s series of paintings through the 1890s, known collectively as the Frieze of Life, looked to the physiologically functioning (and malfunctioning) living organism for both its visual and organized metaphors.

Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism

Cordulack, Shelley Wood

UNKNO

Edvard Munch, expressionist paintings, 1900-1940: A loan exhibition from the Munch Museum in Oslo

Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Traces the life and career of the Expressionist painter, exploring his technique and his major themes and influences, particularly in his painting "The Scream."

Munch: The Scream (One Hundred Paintings Series)

Zeri, Federico

Dolcetta, Marco

Nde Pub

PER AMANN

Barnes, Jennifer (Translator)

Artline Editions

Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind

National Academy of Design (U.S.)

Bjerke, Øivind Storm

Bjerke, Ivind Storm

Sohlberg, Harald

Natl Academy of Design in Ny

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