Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch did not paint the world as it looked.

He painted the world as it felt.

Born in Norway in 1863, Munch became one of modern art’s most important voices by turning private emotion into image: love, illness, jealousy, grief, loneliness, desire and fear. Long before “anxiety” became everyday language, Munch was giving it a face, a shoreline, a room, a red sky.

His paintings show what it feels like to be inside a body, inside a memory, inside a feeling you cannot easily explain.

Our Edvard Munch collection brings together some of his most emotionally charged works, including The Scream, Melancholy, Separation, Vampire, Despair, The Lonely Ones and more.