Person

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter and printmaker

b. 1863 CE – d. 1944 CE World The Great Crossroads

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) is a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes build upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influence German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.