Known as the painter of "The Scream," the Norwegian artist and his loved ones spent many years suffering from health ...

Prideaux also charts Munch's intellectual influences, his immersion in Nietzsche and Dostoyevski and his involvement with a group of radical Norwegian intellectuals, including Hans Jaeger (a ...

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) repeatedly emphasized that his pictures fit together “like the pages of a diary.” All his works are fragments of a great confession. Munch was 28 when he embarked on ...

Art History 5 Striking Edvard Munch Portraits That Reveal the Artist Behind ‘The Scream’ A major group of character studies have gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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 ...

In the 1890s, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch ran afoul of his painting teacher, Leon Bonnat. “Use your eyes, young man,” Bonnat shouted when he saw that Munch had depicted a pinkish brick wall ...

Munch was deeply attuned to the natural world, something the overwhelming, overly broad presence of “The Scream” all but obscures in the public imagination. “Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth ...

A tiny message hidden in Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” was written by the artist himself, a new investigation of the work has found, finally resolving one of modern art’s ...

“The Scream” by Edvard Munch is one of the most famous images in the history of art, and even has its own emoji. If you thought the artwork showed a figure screaming, however, it turns out you ...