Edvard Munch government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other eleven were never recovered), including "The Scream" and "The Sick Child", and they too were hidden from the Nazis. Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. His Nazi-orchestrated funeral suggested to Norwegians that he was a Nazi sympathizer,
Susanne Munch Thore Susanne Munch Thore Susanne Elise Munch Thore (born 1960) is a Norwegian lawyer and businesswoman. After serving as a partner (managing partner from 2011) at the legal firm Wikborg Rein from 1993, she was appointed director at Odfjell Drilling in June 2018. Munch Thore graduated as a lawyer from the University of Oslo in 1897. In 1989, she earned a master of laws degree from Georgetown University. After serving as a legal officer at the Oslo Stock Exchange (1992-93), she joined Wikborg Rein where she specialized in corporate law, dealing with mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions. Her clients