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Brief Chronology
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9 brief chronology 1863 Edvard Munch is born in Løten, Hedmark, Norway, on December, the second of five children of Laura Cathrine Bjølstad and military physician Christian Munch. 1864 The family moves to Christiania. 1868 Edvard’s mother dies of tuberculosis. 1877 Elder sister Sophie dies of tuberculosis. The spelling of the name of the capital of Norway is changed to Kristiania. 1881 Munch enters design school in Kristiania and studies drawing with sculptor Julius Middelthun. He sells two pictures. 1882 Studies with painter Christian Krohg; sells two pictures. 1883 Studies with painter Frits Thaulow. Munch exhibits for the first time at the Art and Industry Exhibition and the Autumn Exhibition in Kristiania. 1884–89 Munch associates with the Kristiania Bohemia, an antibourgeois group of artists and writers led by Hans Jæger. 1885 On a scholarship provided by Thaulow, Munch visits exhibitions in Antwerp, where he shows a painting at the World’s Fair. He also visits Paris and is impressed by Manet’s work. He begins The Sick Child. Begins a romance with Milly Ihlen, called “Fru Heiberg” in Munch’s journal. 1886 Exhibits The Sick Child (first called A Study) at the Autumn Exhibition. He is attacked by critics but defended by Hans Jæger. 1888 Munch exhibits two paintings in Copenhagen. 1889 Exhibits in a one-man show at the Student Association in Kristiania and shows a painting at the World’s Fair in Paris and at the Autumn Exhibition. He studies in Léon Bonnat’s studio in Paris on a Norwegian state grant. Munch’s father dies in November. Munch begins to spend summers in Åsgårdstrand on the Oslo fjord. 1889–92 Lives in Paris intermittently. 1890 Returns to France on a state grant; exhibits in the Autumn Exhibition. 1891 Wins a third state grant and travels to Nice. 1892–1907 Lives in Berlin intermittently. 1892 Exhibits in the Verein Berliner Künstler (Berlin Artists Association), where his paintings provoke outrage; the exhibition closes. Munch travels to Düsseldorf and Cologne; exhibits in Kristiania. He paints August Strindberg in Berlin. 1893 Exhibits paintings in Berlin and Copenhagen. In Berlin Munch associates with Holger Drachmann, Stanislaw Przybyszewski (whose portrait he paints), Dagny Juell (Przybyszewski’s Norwegian wife), and Strindberg. He exhibits in Copenhagen, Breslau, Dresden, Munich, Berlin, and Chicago. 1894 A book of four essays on Munch by Stanislaw Przybyszewski , Franz Servaes, Willy Pastor, and Julius MeierGraefe is published. Munch exhibits in Hamburg, Dresden , Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Stockholm. 1895 Exhibits in Berlin, Kristiania, and Bergen. Art critic and historian Julius Meier-Graefe publishes a portfolio of Munch’s intaglio prints, which sells poorly. A reproduction of a lithograph of The Scream appears in La Revue Blanche. Sigbjørn Obstfelder lectures on Munch’s art at the Students’ Union. Munch’s brother Andreas dies of pneumonia. 1896 Exhibits in Paris and Kristiania. His prints and first woodcuts , including portraits of Knut Hamsun and the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, are shown in Paris. Munch illustrates the program for Lugné-Poe’s production of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. 10 the private journals of edvard munch 1897 Exhibits in Paris, Stockholm, Brussels, Kristiania, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. Munch illustrates the program for Lugné-Poe’s production of John Gabriel Borkman by Ibsen. 1898 Sells intaglio prints and lithographs to the National Gallery in Kristiania. He buys a house in Åsgårdstrand and exhibits in Copenhagen. Munch begins a romance with Tulla Larsen. 1899 Travels to Germany, France, and Italy. Munch studies Raphael in Rome. He prints lithographs and woodcuts and exhibits in Venice and Dresden. 1900 Munch is treated in a sanatorium in Gudbrandsdalen for alcoholism and ill health. He exhibits in Dresden. 1901 Exhibits in Kristiania, Trondheim, Vienna, and Munich. 1902 Exhibits in Lübeck, Dresden, Kristiania, Rome, Vienna, and Bergen. He ends his romance with Tulla Larsen. from 1902 Exhibits widely in Europe. 1903 Munch meets violinist Eva Mudocci in Paris. He creates The Brooch, a lithograph of Mudocci. 1904 Gustav Schiefler begins his catalogue raisonné of Munch’s prints. Munch visits the Oseberg Viking ship excavations frequently and becomes a member of the Berlin Secession, an independent association that had been founded in to exhibit new works that challenged official art institutions. 1905 Norway becomes independent of Sweden peacefully. Munch is treated for alcoholism in a sanatorium in Germany. 1906 Designs the sets for Max Reinhardt’s Berlin productions of Ibsen’s plays Ghosts and Hedda Gabler. 1907 Schiefler’s catalog...