When Edvard Munch created this work - Death in the Sickroom – it was remembering the death of his beloved sister, Sophie. Minch’s mother died in 1868, leaving Edvard, who was 5, his three sisters and younger brother the boys deepest affection resided with Sophie, his older sister. Her death nine years later at age 15, also of tuberculosis, lacerated him for life. Dying, she asked to be lifted out of bed and placed in a chair; Munch, who painted many compositions of her illness and last days, kept that chair until his death. Today you can see Sopie Munch chair in the Munch Museum. Munch talks about the wicker chair In the same chair as I painted the sick one, I and all my dear ones from my mother on have been sitting winter after winter longing for the sun - until death took them away - I and all my dear ones have paced up and down the floor in anxiety. I inherited two of mankinds most frightful enemies—the heritage of consumption (TB) and insanity—illness and madness and death were the black angels that stood at my cradle, he wrote. at the time of the painting the scream his sister was hospitalized for insanity the Scream was painted in 1893 she died 3 months latter look at his Painting death in a sick room sopie and anxiety sister Sorn.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:44:40 +0000
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