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A Biography on EDVARD MUNCH Munch produced work that was highly personal, which describes his feelings. Munch Edvard is Norway’s most famous artist. A founder of expressionism, Munch produced work that was highly personal and sometimes very disturbing. He devoted most of his working life to painting every fact of human emotion in what he called his “Frieze of Life”. Edvard was born in Lote, Norway. He spent his early years on Oslo. He grew up in a conservative, rather puritanical household, but his friends were unconventional bohemians interested in anarchy and “Free love.” He studied in drawing school and was gifted most of paintings in Norway. He was interested in memories and emotions. His themes universal- The stages of life, love and Death. Munch’s own death and disease touched life. His mother died of tuberculosis when Munch was five years old, after giving birth to his sister, Ingar. His brother died in 1895, when he was thirty years. In addition, his sister died when he was fourteen years old, which made the greatest impact on him, Edvard himself was often ill. Moreover, he produced several works such as The Sick Child, which appears, pale and weak on his sister deathbed. Munch was both