![]() He and his surviving siblings were raised by his aunt and father in Oslo in a household ruled by his father’s “obsessive” piety. His mother died of tuberculosis, which also claimed his favorite sister, Sophie, as a teen. He was born in 1863 in a farmhouse in a village in Norway. By his own accounts, Munch did not have a happy childhood, and he returned to its most traumatic events often in painting. ![]() “I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell,” he once wrote. It’s a useful frame to interpret his artwork: not records of life as it was, but as it felt to live. ![]() “In my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself,” Munch wrote of his creative mission. New Edvard Munch Biopic Provides a Confusing Portrait of the Iconic Norwegian Artist ![]()
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