Edvard Munch was a world-famous painter and printmaker from Norway. Born in Løten in 1863, Munch was active for more than 60 years and was one of Modernism’s most important artists. Edvard Munch is ...

As early as 1885, Edvard Munch felt the need to develop a bolder and more simplified style of painting, which we have now come to know as ‘expressionism’. He was one of those artists who reacted ...

Born on this day in 1863, Edvard Munch lived a life marked by mental health struggles and sought to brush themes of anxiety ...

Norwegian artist Munch trained as an engineer before turning to art in 1881. Around 1885, he moved from painting in an impressionist style to an art dealing with his own emotional turmoil ...

In 1877, tragedy struck again when Edvard’s older sister Sofie also died of tuberculosis. Munch’s early artistic project would partly evolve from the sudden deaths of his mother and sister. In 1885, ...

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was interested in the expression of fundamental human emotions, such as despair, fear, melancholy and jealousy. In this image the forest is not so much a ...

Edvard Munch will be shown as a sociable rather than a reclusive artist in a new National Portrait Gallery exhibit. The Norwegian painter is best known for his harrowing images of existential ...

Artist Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on his painting of The Scream, infrared scans have shown. A small and barely visible sentence written on one of the world's most well-known paintings ...

Kate Bryan takes one artistic work which has reached iconic status and finds out about the unexpected influencers who might have led to the work's creation. The work she's picked is Edvard Munch's ...

The burning sun that rises over a Southern Norwegian archipelago is among Edvard Munch's most famous motives. The painting radiates light, warmth and nature: a monumental, yet realistic depiction of ...