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 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 ...
A new exhibition revisits a turning point in the career of the 95-year-old artist: the paintings that faced down death to find meaning in life. By Jason Farago When the video game Bloodborne dropped ...
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, ...