Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter born in 1863 who died in 1944 in Oslo. He had a difficult personal life, losing his sister, mother and father when he was young. Munch's most important work was his painting, in which he developed a unique expressive style characterized by distorted lines and shapes. Two of his most famous paintings were Jealousy, depicting two men and a jealous woman, and The Scream, showing a man screaming on a bridge, both known for their use of black, red, brown and other somber colors.