Munch, Edvard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1890s, from a profound personal sense of isolation, visually examined such primal themes as birth, death, thwarted love, sex, fear, and anxiety. Stricken by tragedy (his mother and favorite sister died young, another sister was psychotic...