‘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 ...
At head of title: Munch 150. Catalogue accompanies the exhibition Munch 150, held in Oslo, June 2-October 13, 2013 at the Nasjonalgalleriet (the period 1882-1904) and the Munch-museet (the period 1904 ...
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, increasingly revered ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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