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Edvard Munch

1863 - 1944

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Edvard Munch ( MUUNK, Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work, The Scream, has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Munch has received more than 5,127,417 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Edvard Munch is the 12th most popular painter, the most popular biography from Norway (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Painter.

Edvard Munch is most famous for painting "The Scream."

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  • 97

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  • 21.41

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edvard Munch ranks 12 out of 1,421. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Dürer. After him are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Sandro Botticelli, Diego Velázquez, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Edvard Munch ranks 1. After him are Henry Ford, Pierre de Coubertin, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Paul Signac, Konstantin Stanislavski, Swami Vivekananda, Arthur Henderson, Pietro Mascagni, David Lloyd George, Henry van de Velde, and Gabriele D'Annunzio. Among people deceased in 1944, Edvard Munch ranks 1. After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Erwin Rommel, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Richard Sorge, and Günther von Kluge.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Edvard Munch ranks 1 out of 927. After him are Ragnar Lodbrok (850), Roald Amundsen (1872), Edvard Grieg (1843), Henrik Ibsen (1828), Harald V of Norway (1937), Knut Hamsun (1859), Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945), Harald Fairhair (850), Rollo (846), Fridtjof Nansen (1861), and Erik the Red (950).

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Among PAINTERS In Norway

Among painters born in Norway, Edvard Munch ranks 1. After him are Peder Severin Krøyer (1851), Johan Christian Dahl (1788), Christian Krohg (1852), Theodor Kittelsen (1857), Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831), Frits Thaulow (1847), Hans Gude (1825), Harriet Backer (1845), Oda Krohg (1860), Martinus Rørbye (1803), and Gerhard Munthe (1849).

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