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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1863. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Scottish National Gallery have featured Edvard Munch's work in the past.Edvard Munch's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5 USD to 119,922,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 119,922,500 USD for The Scream, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2012. Edvard Munch has been featured in articles for Apollo, HYPEBEAST and BBC News. The most recent article is The Art That Hitler Stole for Himself written for ArtDependence Magazine in April 2024. The artist died in 1944.
Like no other region in Austria, the Salzkammergut served as a point of transit and salvage for important works of European art history during the Second World War, including art looted by the National Socialists.
I first saw Fjord Landscape (1906) when I was studying philosophy at the University of Oslo, in so far as I ever managed to study that subject in any meaningful sense.
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..Throughout his career, Munch regularly revisited subjects from his earlier years, exploring them with renewed inspiration and intensity over time...
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..Today it is difficult to understand the critique that hailed down on Munch during the beginning of his career, particularly from the Norwegian press...
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