Edvard Munch such as the appearance of Munch's "The Scream" in a 2006 M&M's advertising campaign. The U.S. copyright representative for the Munch Museum and the Estate of Edvard Munch is the Artists Rights Society. Munch's art was highly personalized and he did little teaching. His "private" symbolism was far more personal than that of other Symbolist painters such as Gustave Moreau and James Ensor. Munch was still highly influential, particularly with the German Expressionists, who followed his philosophy, "I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart." Many of his
Johan Storm Munch (evangelist) Peter Andreas Munch. The painter Edvard Munch was the son of Munch’s cousin Christian. Munch was married to Caja Falch (1830-1898) just prior to his emigration to America, where their first two children were born. Seven more were born after they returned to Norway, among them one of Norway’s first female physicians, Kristine Munch. The sociologist Peter A. Munch was one of their grandchildren. Munch’s followers built a home for the large family at Bestum, outside Christiania, where Munch died at the age of 81. Johan Storm Munch (evangelist) Johan Storm Munch (21 October 1827 – 13 August 1908) was