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

An exhibition at the Munch museum in Oslo shows how the artist’s fascination with medicine, bodies and mental illness was ...

Edvard Munch, 1863–1944, was a zeitgeist conductor. Like Dostoyevsky before him, like Kafka after him, he was one of those somewhat hastily assembled humans—the skull plates not stapled down ...

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — an 1893 expressionist painting so famous it has its own emoji — contains a disturbing hidden message that art historians have now determined was written ...

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, who never married, called his paintings his children and hated to be separated from them. Living alone on his estate outside Oslo for the last 27 years of his life, ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s treatise on the art of Edvard Munch, “So Much Longing in So Little Space,” fails — as art criticism is prone to do — to adequately “read” or “translate ...

The reputation of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has never been higher. In recent decades, scholars have elevated his role in the history of art while collectors fueled an explosion in prices for ...