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Madonna is a famous painting by the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch. Munch painted five versions of the Madonna between 1894 and 1895, using oils on canvas. One of them measures 91 x 70.5 cm.
One version belonging to the Munch Museum of Oslo is stolen, while another is owned by businessman Nelson Blitz.
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The purpose of Expressionism is to show emotions that the artist feels in hopes that the viewer will be stirred and feel them as well. The artist is not concerned with reality as it appears but with its inner nature and with the emotions aroused by the subject. To achieve these ends, the subject is frequently caricatured, exaggerated, distorted, or otherwise altered in order to stress the emotional experience in its most intense and concentrated form.
Edvard Munch places his feelings and emotions deep inside in his paintings. He is a very talented artist, although, his life was more painful than you may think.
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Year |
Description |
1863 |
Born 12 December in Löten, Norway |
1864 |
The family moves to Kristiania |
1868 |
Mother dies |
1877 |
Sister, Sophia, dies |
1879 |
Begins studies at Kristiania Technical |
1880 |
Decides to become a painter, leaves |
1881 |
Attends Royal School of Drawing |
1885 |
Travels to Paris |
1889 |
Father dies, Edvard falls into a state |
1889 |
Munch arranges his first one-man show |
1889 |
Studies with Léon Bonnat in Paris |
1892 |
Exhibits in Berlin’s Artists’ Association |
1906 |
Completes decorations for Max Reinhardt’s |
1908 |
Nervous breakdown |
1908 |
Suffers from delusions, is admitted |
1909 |
Awarded the Royal Order of St. Olav |
1916 |
Settles on the estate Ekely, near Kristiania |
1930 |
A blood vessel bursts in Munch’s right |
1933 |
Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order |
1937 |
82 works by Munch in German public galleries |
1940 |
Bequeaths all works of art in his possession |
1944 |
Dies of pneumonia on 23 January in Ekely, |