Diorama Exhibition Poster
Edvard Munch
1910
Medium
color lithograph in green-black and red with green chalk on two sheets of joined wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 142.5 x 46.9 cm (56 1/8 x 18 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Epstein Family Collection
Accession Number
1999.112.1
About the Artist
Edvard Munch · 1863–1944
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely psychological works made him a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most influential artists of the modern era. His 1893 masterpiece 'The Scream' has become an iconic symbol of existential anxiety. Munch's art was profoundly shaped by personal tragedy—his mother died when he was five, his beloved sister Sophie at fo...