9 Lesser-Known Paintings By Edvard Munch (Other Than The Scream)

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Edvard Munch is remembered as a leading painter of post-impressionism and a pioneer of expressionism. His seminal work The Scream is one of the most iconic artworks of 20th-century modernism and one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. The Scream was processed in various ways by Edvard Munch, in four paintings and one lithograph between the years 1893 and 1910. To this day, it is still Munch’s most famous painting – but it is by no means the only remarkable work.

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is regarded as the painter of modernism. Early on, Munch, who is said to have had a difficult childhood himself, was confronted with the experience of illness and death. When Munch was five years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, and soon afterward his older sister also died. His younger sister was under medical treatment for psychological problems. Motifs such as death and illness but also other existential emotional states such as love, fear or melancholy run through the pictorial and graphic work of Edvard Munch. While these themes appear in The Scream, they are also present in Munch’s other works. In the following, we present nine paintings by Edvard Munch which you should also know.

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