The Sick Child, 1907 (original 1885-6), oil on canvas, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm Edvard Munch was born in a small farmhouse in ... The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard Munch (1863-1944) came into his own as an artist. Geology — and ...

Edvard Munch is best known for The Scream, a painting of a tortured human face unveiled in 1893. But the famous painting is only a small piece of the Norwegian artist’s oeuvre, which includes ...

Munch was the archetypal tortured young man. This we know. The Scream kind of gave the game away. Yet, as this exhibition ...

In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky ...

© 2006 Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society, New York Edvard Munch, who never married, called his paintings his children and hated to be separated from them. Living alone ...

Edvard Munch wasn’t the first to use landscape as a mirror to the soul. But has anyone ever done it so vividly, and with such conviction? WILLIAMSTOWN — What’s with the screaming in Edvard ...

Our impressions of “Scandi culture” may come and go – with baking and “cosiness” having dominated of late – but the appeal of Edvard Munch’s tormented Nordic visions never wavers.

At his death, in 1944, Edvard Munch left hundreds of artworks to the city of Oslo—enough to fill a dedicated museum and then some. Because Munch had sold well during his long career, plenty more ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Many of the pieces that Knausgaard selected for this reintroduction to Munch had ...

Yes, for while the National Portrait Gallery’s Edvard Munch Portraits collects 40 or so portraits, which show many different sides to the man, the most delicious moments are those he painted as ...