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,
The Kiss (Munch painting) to the similarity of the room in "The Kiss" to Munch's own, as represented in "Night in Saint-Cloud", art critic Ulrich Bischoff considers the painting to have an autobiographical element. "The Kiss" was exhibited in 1903 at Munch's show "Love's Awakening", paired with a copy of his "Madonna". The painting is now part of the collection of the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway; the museum is dedicated to Munch and his works. Another prominent painting in western art history that is commonly referred to as "The Kiss" was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1907. The Kiss (Munch painting) The Kiss