Эдвард Мунк

A book about the Norwegian painter, engraver, sculptor, expressionist Edvard Munch. He was very popular during his lifetime. He painted pictures on the themes: love, death, despair. After 1914, he no longer addressed this topic. He worked a lot on portraits, landscapes, scenes of everyday working and peasant life. Impressionist painting made a great impression on the artist in Paris. Gradually, Munch's work acquired a purely individual character and an invariably heightened sensitivity inherent in him. A supporter of plein air painting, he first painted realistic landscapes. In the 1890s, his style became more decorative. Departing from naturalism, he turned to fantastic subjects drawn from Norwegian folklore, ballads and fairy tales. Munch's engravings are as significant as his paintings, he achieved special skill in woodcuts (illustrations for Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, lithograph on the program of Peer Gynt Ibsen). Munch's work, spiritually close to Van Gogh, influenced the development of painting in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The publication consists of three chapters that tell about the life of the artist and the history of the creation of each painting presented in the publication. At the end of the book is a chronology of the life and work of the master, illustrated with documentary photographs.