Edvard Munch. Love and angst

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques.
Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty.