Edvard Munch used painting to give form to inner states. Anxiety, desire, loss, and longing become visual forces rather than private emotions. For Munch, art was not decoration. It was a way to confront what could not be spoken. Figures dissolve, faces strain, and color carries psychological weight. His work helped lay the foundations of Expressionism by insisting that emotional truth mattered more than likeness. #EdvardMunch #Expressionism #ModernArt #ArtHistory #KnowTheArtist | Irene Noren

This glimpse into Edvard Munch’s exhibition at Equitable Palast in Berlin around the turn of the year 1892/93 is the earliest photograph of any Munch exhibition, the only one from the 1890s and the closest one comes to a visual impression of the scandal-ridden exhibition at "Verein Berliner Künstler" a few weeks earlier. In the photograph there are three paintings that are now presumebly lost: an earlier version of “The Day After” (1891-92), “From the Riviera” (1892) and “Men Flocking round Wome