Edvard Munch

Norwegian Symbolist whose paintings of anxiety, jealousy, illness and death prefigured Expressionism. Munch's mother and sister both died of tuberculosis when he was a child; the loss saturates the work. The Scream (1893) exists in four versions — two paintings, two pastels — and is, after the Mona Lisa, probably the most reproduced image in Western art. He survived Norway's German occupation in his late seventies by hiding much of his collection in his home outside Oslo.