The painting's agonised face is widely identified with the angst of the modern person. According to Munch, he was out walking at sunset, when he 'heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature'. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on his major canon The Frieze of Life, depicting a series of deeply-felt themes such as love, anxiety, jealousy and betrayal, steeped in atmosphere. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of colour. Travel brought new influences and outlets. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state ('soul painting'). His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the iconic images of world art.
Edvard Munch ( / m ʊ ŋ k/ MUUNK, Norwegian: ( listen) 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.
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