consumption and insanity

                                                                                                                in front of loneliness i kneeled and wept.

                                                         To mennesker. De ensomme

 Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944)

A life truly violent, lead by a calamity stricken individual, lost in agony, misery and self destruction.

Self-portrait with
skeleton arm, 1895

"The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born."

Death in the

sickroom, 1893

"No longer should interiors be painted, people reading and women knitting: there would be living people, breathing and feeling, suffering and loving"

                            
                               


                                                                          

Salzspeicher und Holstentor, etching 1903

The Kiss

Young woman on the shore, 1896

Attraction, 1896

 

"My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life—it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.” 
  

"Two Human Beings, The Lonely Ones", lithograph

"From my rotting body,
 flowers shall grow
 and I am in them
 and that is eternity."