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16 unusual facts about Edvard Munch


1883 eruption of Krakatoa

In 2004, an astronomer proposed the idea that the blood red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream is also an accurate depiction of the sky over Norway after the eruption.

1943 University of Oslo fire

The ceremony hall has been used for lectures, graduation ceremonies and concerts and also features valuable paintings by Edvard Munch.

Bryllupsfesten

Businessman Carl Otto "Totto" Holm (Husebø) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and plans a staged robbery of the family's Munch engraving.

Czech art

An important event in Czech art was the exhibition of Edvard Munch which took place in Prague in 1905 and inspired a new generation of Czech artists to express themselves in new ways, often looking to the international art scene, in particular that of France, for new ideas.

Drums in the Night

Reigbert's rendering for the set design for Act V of Drums in the Night, for example, contains a figure standing by the bridge that is very much like Edvard Munch's figure (also standing by a bridge) in his painting of 1893, The Scream.

Edvard Munch

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, "Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

Edward Dolnick

Dolnick's book The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (2005)—an account of the 1994 theft, and eventual recovery, of Edvard Munch's The Scream from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo—won the 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Crime Fact category.

Fawni

Inspired by many great modern artists, such as Warhol, Basquiat, Rauschenberg, and Lichtenstein, as well as classical artists like Goya, Munch, Picasso, and most notably her father Paul Simon Hill, Fawni’s paintings are unique and striking, and always make an impression and a powerful statement.

Gamle Oslo

The district has several landmarks and large parks, including the Edvard Munch Museum, the Botanical Gardens and a medieval park.

Hildebrand Gurlitt

A collection of his letters shows that he was personally well acquainted with modern artists at the time, and he acquired and exhibited works by many of them, including Barlach, Feininger, Hofer, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Klee, Kokoschka, Lissitzky, Marc, and Munch.

Hotel Continental, Oslo

Hotel Continental has an extensive art collection, and in the lobby bar “Dagligstuen” there is a large collection of prints by Edvard Munch.

Newman and Baddiel in Pieces

Its title sequence was an animated version of Munch's painting The Scream (to the tune of "Another Flavour" by The Sundays), with Newman and Baddiel revealed as the artist's friends in the background, standing near a waterfront theatre in which they were appearing.

Reg Alcock

The work, a parody of Edvard Munch's The Scream, depicted Alcock's impression of the opposition Conservative caucus moments after the Liberals won a crucial confidence vote that could have forced early elections.

Réjean Hinse

After the judgment, Hinse used a copy of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream to illustrate his psychological condition in prison.

Scream Pubs

The original name came from the 1893 painting The Scream, by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, which is a popular poster image with many students.

Sue Prideaux

She has strong links to Norway and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.


Ekeberg

The painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten ("the view"), a part of Ekeberg.

Helen Svensson Fletre

When King Olav V of Norway visited Chicago in 1975, she took him on a personal tour of the Edvard Munch exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Joseph Christian Lillie

The house and garden are also important in the art of Edvard Munch and later became the domicile of the Munch collector and patron Dr. Max Linde (1804)

Münch

Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian Expressionist Painter, best known for "The Scream"

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Important Scandinavian and German artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented, including Anna Ancher, Michael Ancher, Max Beckmann, Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.

Odderøya

The press is in use are imported from Paris, and has previously been used by, among other things, Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch.