![]() ![]() The painting The Sick Child (1925) is in several respects an important work in the art of Edvard Munch. In the following, we present nine paintings by Edvard Munch which you should also know. ![]() While these themes appear in The Scream, they are also present in Munch’s other works. 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. His younger sister was under medical treatment for psychological problems. When Munch was five years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, and soon afterward his older sister also died. Early on, Munch, who is said to have had a difficult childhood himself, was confronted with the experience of illness and death. The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is regarded as the painter of modernism. Edvard Munch And Modernism Death in the Sickroom by Edvard Munch, 1893, via Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo ![]()
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