Edvard Munch

Munch lost his mother at five and his sister to tuberculosis in his teens, and his father was intensely religious and gloomy. “Illness, insanity and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle,” he wrote.

He organised his paintings of love, anxiety, jealousy and death into “The Frieze of Life”, using writhing line and intense colour to express inner experience and paving the way for Expressionism.