Edvard Munch was born on December 12th, 1863, in Løten, Norway, the son of Christian Munch, a military doctor.  He spent most of his childhood living in Kristiania, which is now better known as Oslo, the Norwegian capital.  Edvard Munch’s mother, his brother, and one of his sisters died of tuberculosis while he was still young, and Edvard was himself a sickly child.  At the age of 17 was tutored in the arts by Christian Krohg, a naturalist painter, who was quite famous in Norway.  Edvard’s talent was evident by his early realist paintings, but the traumatic events that plagued Edvard’s youth had an even deeper impact on his artistic vision than any other artist or artistic movement could have.