‘The artist Edvard Munch died last week in Oslo, in his native Norway,” reported Time magazine, almost 80 years ago, Feb. 7, 1944. The magazine described the artist as being “a tall, frail, eccentric ...
Compounding Edvard's misery was his own fragile health. As Sue Prideaux recounts in her new biography, Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream, he had tuberculosis and spit blood as a boy. His father's ...
The painting seems to depict Munch's one-time lover, violinist Eva Mudocci. Adam Finnefrock of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art and Flaten Art Museum director Jane Becker Nelson with Portrait of Eva ...
The author for Hyperallergic’s copies of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s So Much Longing In So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch in Norwegian and English (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Likewise, ...
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), “Vampire II” (1896). The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, on loan to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (all images courtesy of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) LONDON — ...
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Edvard Munch Was Haunted by Physical and Mental Illnesses—but He Was Also Fascinated by Them
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was well-acquainted with the world of medicine. He was the son and brother of doctors, and he suffered from medical and psychiatric illnesses throughout his lifetime.
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 specifically ...
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 beach with ...
It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an umbrella term for European painters such as Gauguin who moved beyond the plein-air (“outdoor”) breakthroughs of Degas, Renoir ...
As Western art’s most memorable utterance of existential pain, Edvard Munch’s The Scream is naturally understood as a definitive glimpse inside the artist’s soul, as much as an embodiment of ...
A show opening today at the Courtauld Institute in London will display nearly a dozen paintings by Edvard Munch that have never been seen by the British public. The exhibition traces the Norwegian ...
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