Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter whose Expressionist works harnessed emotional discord to create mysterious and symbolic scenes. Working in a style characterized by swirling shapes and otherworldly colors, his haunting painting, The Scream (1893), is among the most iconic works of art history. “For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety, which I have tried to express in my art,” Munch once reflected. “Without anxiety and illness, I should have been like a ship without a rudder.” Born on December 12, 1863 in Løten, Norway, the artist’s childhood was darkened by the death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis as wells as his father’s mental illness. Enrolling...