1 . Edvard Munch ’s family unit suffered many tragedies , including the death of their mother and an older sister , Sophie , of tuberculosis . Their father also fail young and the only sibling to marry snuff it a few month after the hymeneals . A younger sis , Laura Catherine , was diagnosed with manic depression at an early age and was in a mental hospital near the setting of " Scream " at the clip Munch paint it .
2 . The painting was inspired by a pass Munch took with friends , during which he saw the Lord’s Day set in a blood carmine sky , possibly a result of the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . Munch " sensed an non-finite riot guide through nature . " Some theories hold that the mortal in the foreground is the creative person , not scream , but protect himself from Nature ’s scream .
3 . Robert Rosenblum , a Munch scholar , suggested in 1978 that Munch based the " screeching " figure on a Peruvian mum that he may have seen at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris . This same mummy serve up as the example for figures in two paintings by Paul Gauguin , a friend of Munch . An Italian anthropologist , though , believes the figure may have been found on a mammy at Florence ’s Museum of Natural History , as there is a stronger resemblance between the two .
4 . Four versions of the painting were created by Munch , as well as a lithograph machine that he created so the image could be reproduce in reviews . One of the originals was steal from the National Gallery in Norway on the day the 1994 Winter Olympics opened in Lillehammer . It was recovered about four calendar month afterwards in a sting surgical operation . A second original , along with Munch ’s " Madonna , " was stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in 2004 . The paintings were recover a twelvemonth later , after multiple offers of rewards , including an offer from Masterfoods USA of 2 million M&Ms .
5 . In 1892 , Munch was invite by the Union of Berlin Artists to exhibit at its November exhibition , but his paintings evoke bitter tilt , and the expo close after one week . A little more than thirty year later on , the Nazis labeled Munch ’s work " degraded graphics " and removed it from all the German museums . Munch was deeply ache , because he had come to think of Germany as his 2nd homeland .
6 . The Norwegian 1,000 Kroner note feature Edvard Munch , along with pictures inspired by his nontextual matter .
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