Edvard Munch died on 23 January 1944 in Ekely, aged 80. A Norwegian painter and printmaker, Munch is best known for The Scream, a haunting image of anxiety that became one of the most recognizable works in Western art. His paintings explored love, illness, jealousy and death, themes shaped by the early loss of his mother and sister and by his own fragile mental health. A major figure in Symbolism and a forerunner of Expressionism, he worked in Berlin, Paris and Norway and produced a series known as the Frieze of Life. He bequeathed his remaining works to the city of Oslo, which established the Munch Museum.
Before and after
- 1 January 1944Publication of State Anthem of the Soviet Union
- 1944Avery, MacLeod and McCarty show that DNA carries genes
- 19441944 becomes the warmest year on record
- 18 January 1944Birth of Alexander Van der Bellen
- 23 January 1944Death of Edvard Munch
- from 24 January 1944 to 17 February 1944Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket
- February 1944Construction of O'Hare International Airport
- from 1 February 1944 to 14 May 1948Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
- February 1944Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, goes into operation
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