Edvard munch educational games
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MUNCH audioguide
About this app
Edvard Munch – what makes him Norway’s best-known artist? Why did he paint The Scream? What’s the story behind world famous artworks like Madonna, Vampire and Girls on the Bridge?
MUNCH, the museum housing the world’s biggest collection of Edvard Munch’s art, presents a spoken word guide to some of the artist’s most important works. Elevate your museum visit by downloading our accessible and informative commentaries on the works in the permanent exhibitions at MUNCH. Hear the thoughts of curators and art historians, artists, writers, climate and animal rights activists and experts in all areas of Munch’s life and work.
Among others you can hear the voices of artist Tracey Emin, author Karl Ove Knausgaard, curators Patricia G. Berman, Kari Brandtzæg and Trine Otte Bak Nielsen, Munch biographer Ivo de Figueiredo, and many others. The commentaries include Edvard Munch’s own words, read by Fredrik Høyer.
Available in:Norwegian, English, German
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (MUUNK; Norwegian:[ˈɛ̀dvɑɖˈmʊŋk]; 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. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state ('soul painting'); from this emerged his distinctive style.
Travel brought new influences and outlets. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of color. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on a major series of paintings he would later call The Frieze of Life, depicting a series of deeply-felt themes such as lov
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