“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.”
-Edvard Munch
The Scream
The Scream is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik (Scream), and the German title under which it was first exhibited Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including The Scream, had a formative influence on the Expressionist movement.
He “invented” the cell phone
Well, at least as an idea. In an undated draft of a letter to his friend, the Danish painter Jens Willumsen, Munch wrote:
“Had I been in possession of the as yet undiscovered little remote telephone which one carries around in one’s pocket, you would have long ago received communications from me.”
Munch took great interest in technical innovations, and acquired a film camera, a parlograph (to record voices), a camera, a telephone and a radio.
The Collection
