Munch's Love and Angst: Major Lithograph Exhibition at British Museum

The British Museum in London presents 'Edvard Munch: love and angst', the largest exhibition of the Norwegian artist's prints in the UK in 45 years. Featuring around 83 works, the show includes 50 pieces from the Munch Museum in Oslo—one of its most significant international loans—alongside works from the British Museum's own collection and other European loans. The exhibition highlights Munch's mastery of lithography, a medium through which he explored human emotions with raw, essential lines. Themes range from love and desire to jealousy, loneliness, anxiety, and pain, prefiguring German Expressionism. A centerpiece is a rare black-and-white lithograph of 'The Scream', which includes an inscription absent from color versions: 'I felt a great scream pass through nature', suggesting the figure hears a scream rather than screams. The exhibition runs until July 21, 2019.