Who created "The Dead Mother and Her Child"?

The Dead Mother and Her Child was created by Edvard Munch in 1901.

The Dead Mother and Her Child

Q: What medium is "The Dead Mother and Her Child"?

The Dead Mother and Her Child is Etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper.

Edvard Munch

1901

Medium

Etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 32.3 × 49.4 cm (12 3/4 × 19 1/2 in.); Sheet: 42.1 × 58.6 cm (16 5/8 × 23 1/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

51417

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...

The Dead Mother and Her Child

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