In the fall of 1908, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch had hallucinations and a full-on nervous collapse, brought on in part by alcohol abuse. After eight months in a psychiatric facility, the artist ...

Edvard Munch in his winter studio (1938) (image courtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo) SAN FRANCISCO — In early October 1889, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch left the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) for Paris.

One of only two public commissions Edvard Munch ever completed is marred by nicotine and chocolate. For the past century, his 12 monumental paintings depicting bucolic life have hung in the workers’ ...

That may change with “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed,” SFMOMA’s new exhibit that — thanks largely to the museum’s collaboration with Norway’s Munch Museum — looks at the artist’s entire ...

(CNN) -- A tiny message hidden in Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was written by the artist himself, a new investigation of the work has found, finally resolving one of modern art's most ...

What the Gallery Says: “This exhibition of photographs, films, and a small selection of prints by Edvard Munch emphasizes the artist’s experimentalism, examining his exploration of the camera as an ...

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 ...

This exhibit of Edvard Munch’s lithographs and prints is “a fascinating look into the mind of an artist struggling with insanity,” said Sophie Gilbert in Washingtonian.com. Among the masterworks are ...

Art aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo ...

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, the ...

No, “The Scream” isn’t here — that most famous image by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. But the exhibit of 44 of Munch’s paintings at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art may have enough anguish, ...