| Timeline |
| 1863 |
Born 12 December in Löten, Norway |
| 1864 |
The family moves to Kristiania |
| 1868 |
Mother dies |
| 1877 |
Sister, Sophia, dies |
| 1879 |
Begins studies at Kristiania Technical College |
| 1880 |
Decides to become a painter, leaves engineering studies and enrols at the Royal School of Design in Kristiania |
| 1881 |
Attends Royal School of Drawing |
| 1885 |
Travels to Paris |
| 1889 |
Father dies, Edvard falls into a state of depression |
| 1889 |
Munch arranges his first one-man show at the Student Association in Kristiania |
| 1889 |
Studies with Léon Bonnat in Paris |
| 1892 |
Exhibits in Berlin's Artists' Association |
| 1906 |
Completes decorations for Max Reinhardt's staging of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts in Berlin |
| 1908 |
Nervous breakdown |
| 1908 |
Suffers from delusions, is admitted to Dr. Jacobson's clinic in Copenhagen |
| 1909 |
Awarded the Royal Order of St. Olav |
| 1916 |
Settles on the estate Ekely, near Kristiania |
| 1930 |
A blood vessel bursts in Munch's right eye, he is nearly blind for a while |
| 1933 |
Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav |
| 1937 |
82 works by Munch in German public galleries confiscated as 'entartete Kunst'
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| 1940 |
Bequeaths all works of art in his possession to the City of Oslo |
| 1944 |
Dies of pneumonia on 23 January in Ekely, near Oslo |
