Edvard Munch : [Brochure] the Modern Life of the Soul : the Museum of Modern Art, February 19-May 8, 2006
Edvard Munch : [brochure] the modern life of the soul : the Museum of Modern Art, February 19-May 8, 2006 Author Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 Date 2006 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/85 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art Edvard Munch the modern life of the soul The Museum of Modern Art February 19-May 8, 2006 EDVARD MUNCH, the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker, and draftsman, sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and, in the process, to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love, and death. Munch's pri mary source of inspiration was his own life history, which was marked by romantic suffering, illness, and the death of some of his closest family members. But Munch was also a product of his time, inspired first by the bohemian community of his native Kristiania (now Oslo) and later by his association with the Parisian and Berlin avant-gardes. In the end, painting became a kind of religious endeavor for Munch, a means through which he hoped to "understand the meaning of life [and] help others gain an understanding of their lives." Munch was born in 1863, on a farm outside of Kristiania. His early work, consisting primarily of family portraits, was inspired by the art of the Norwegian naturalist painters, among them his mentor Christian Krohg.
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