‘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 ...

Most people can name just one work by Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch. It’s “The Scream,” of course, which is actually a series — four versions of a single composition. The paintings ...

This ambitious graphic biography of the artist Edvard Munch, translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M. Nichols, its text almost entirely direct quotes from the artist and his contemporaries, took ...

Left: Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait in front of The Death of Marat, Ekely (1930). Right: X-ray image of Edvard Munch's left hand (1902) Self-portrait: Photo: Munch Museum / Edvard Munch. X-ray: Photo: ...

Ashes National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design/National Gallery, Oslo. © 2006 Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society, New York The Dance of Life National Museum of Art, ...

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, “Angry Dog” (ca 1938–43), watercolor, one of many images generated by Edvard Munch of a neighbor’s dog with whom he had a contentious relationship (all images courtesy of the Munch ...

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 ...

Anyone who has read—or even looked at—the thousands of pages that make up Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume work, My Struggle, can tell that the Norwegian writer is prolific. In between wrapping up the ...

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 ...