Edvard Munch at Palazzo Reale MI

40 years since the last major exhibition dedicated to Edvard Munch was held in Milan, one of the most loved and popular artists of the last century returns with a monographic exhibition at Palazzo Reale, organized in collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo. Scheduled on the 80th anniversary of the Norwegian artist’s death, this broad survey exhibition presents a selection of 100 works (including paintings, drawings and prints), showcasing the artistic production created over the course of a lifetime – from 1880 to 1944.

Throughout his career, Munch explored questions of everlasting existential significance, bringing the anguish of modern man to canvas. The radical modernity of his art launched a challenge to his contemporaries and exerted a powerful influence on the European art scene as the old century gave way to the new. The strength of his artistic vision reaches the present day not least because of a few masterpieces, which have become part of contemporary culture: above all, The Scream – a painting which, as the author himself explained, was inspired by a Norwegian landscape inflamed by a red sunset.