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brief chronology
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some months of the year until 1916. He exhibits in Finland and widely in Norway and has much success selling
his works. He is made an honorary member of the
Manes Art Association in Prague.
Munch enters a competition for the decoration of the
new Aula (university hall) at Kristiania University. He
buys property in Hvitsen, where he lives part of the year
until 1916.
Munch wins the competition for the Aula murals. He
returns to printmaking.
Visits Germany, France, and England; exhibits in Sweden
and Germany and at the Armory Show in New York. He
receives tributes on his fiftieth birthday.
World War I begins. Munch exhibits primarily in
Scandinavia.
The Aula murals are unveiled. Munch purchases Ekely, at
Skyen, where he lives for the rest of his life.
Munch exhibits prints in Blomqvists gallery in Kristiania
and publishes a catalog. Curt Glaser publishes a book on
Munch.
Munch publishes a booklet entitled Frieze of Life to
accompany an exhibition at Blomqvists gallery. The
description of the Frieze of Life in the catalogue to the 1927
exhibition in the National Gallery in Oslo begins thus: A
series of frequently treated synthetic depictions of life,
love, suffering and death. On this frieze, I have worked for
about 30 years, with long interruptions, the artist wrote
in a little brochure from 1925 (qtd. in Reinhold Heller,
Form and Formation of Edvard Munchs Frieze of Life,
Edvard Munch: The Frieze of Life, ed. Mara-Helen Wood
[London: National Gallery Publications, 1992], 27).
World War I ends. Munch is gravely ill with Spanish flu.
He builds a studio at Ekely and exhibits prints in New York.
Munch visits Germany.
Exhibits in Germany in four cities.
Exhibits in Switzerland, Prague, and Trondheim. Munch
visits Germany and buys art from German artists.
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