Symbolist art – ARTMUSELONDON

Munch’s Scream Revisited at the British Museum

The Sick Child by Edvard Munch 1885 You wouldn’t wish Edvard Munch’s childhood on your worst enemy. Munch was brought up in Kristiania (as Oslo then was) in a strict Lutheran family in the second half of the 19th century. Aged five, Munch lost his mother to TB and nearly succumbed to the same…

SCANDI-NOIR IN SE21: Harald Sohlberg the Dulwich Art Gallery

There is a sense in these works of the landscape giving form to thought, a quality that puts you in mind immediately of the similarly curious, almost uninhabited cityscapes of Atkinson Grimshaw.