Edvard Munch

1863 – 1944

Art

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.

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Their World

Global Events

1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States

1869 Suez Canal opens

1871 Unification of Germany

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

In Their Field

1863 Manet exhibits Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe; sparks Impressionism

1874 First Impressionist exhibition in Paris

1889 Van Gogh paints The Starry Night

1907 Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Cubism emerges

1913 Armory Show introduces modern art to America

1917 Duchamp exhibits Fountain; conceptual art born

1924 Surrealist Manifesto published by Andre Breton

1937 Picasso paints Guernica