How did tragedy affect Edvard Munch's work?

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Stricken by tragedy (his mother and favorite sister died young another sister was psychotic and he feared for his own sanity) Munch transformed his own trauma into an exploration of universal themes creating figurative images that are sometimes violent sometimes tranquil and sorrowful.

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