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
College |
1880 |
Decides to become a painter, leaves
engineering studies and enrols at the Royal
School of Design in Kristiania |
1881 |
Attends Royal School of Drawing |
1885 |
Travels to Paris |
1889 |
Father dies, Edvard falls into a state
of depression |
1889 |
Munch arranges his first one-man show
at the Student Association in Kristiania |
1889 |
Studies with Léon Bonnat in Paris |
1892 |
Exhibits in Berlin's Artists' Association |
1906 |
Completes decorations for Max Reinhardt's
staging of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts in Berlin |
1908 |
Nervous breakdown |
1908 |
Suffers from delusions, is admitted
to Dr. Jacobson's clinic in Copenhagen |
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
eye, he is nearly blind for a while |
1933 |
Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order
of St. Olav |
1937 |
82 works by Munch in German public galleries
confiscated as 'entartete Kunst' |
1940 |
Bequeaths all works of art in his possession
to the City of Oslo |
1944 |
Dies of pneumonia on 23 January in Ekely,
near Oslo |
