Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was born in Löten in Hedmark,
in the southeast of Norway, in 1863, as the son of Laura and Christian
Munch. Edvard’s mother died from tuberculosis when he was only
five years old, and his two year older sister Sofie died from the
same illness at the age of fifteen. Edvard Munch also had the experience
of being a relative of a mentally ill person, as his sister Laura
suffered from recurring depression and was at times admitted to
a mental hospital. The artist himself periodically drank too much
alcohol and was struck with a nervous breakdown in 1908, with visual
and auditory hallucinations and paranoid ideas. He spent eight months
at a nerve clinic in Copenhagen.
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