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Biography of Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and theatrical designer, known for being one of the pioneers of Expressionism.

He was born on December 12, 1863, in Loten, southern Norway, and grew up in Oslo (then known as Christiania).

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His father, a military doctor, was a deeply religious man. When Munch was still a child, his mother and older sister died from tuberculosis. The themes of illness, suffering, and death, which Munch constantly returned to throughout his artistic career, were familiar to him from an early age.

At the age of 17, Munch enrolled in the Royal School of Drawing; during his two years of studies, he became involved in the artistic and literary circles of Christiania, which shocked society with their frank depictions of bohemian life.

The subjects that Munch drew from this environment later appeared in his series, "The Life Frieze." Acco