Edvard Munch
- 1863–1944
- 19th–20th century
- Norway
- Symbolism
Munch externalizes raw emotion — anxiety, love, death — through wavering lines, sickly colour, and simplified haunted figures. The world warps to mirror inner psychological turmoil.
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was a painter from Norway, associated with Symbolism.
A late-19th-century movement of dreams, myth, and inner emotion expressed through suggestive, evocative imagery. Symbolism →
More Symbolism painters: Gustav Klimt, Gustave Moreau, Harald Sohlberg, Ferdinand Hodler.
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