Kjell Torriset is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. Born in 1950 in Ålesund, Norway, he has been recognized with the city of Ålesund's art prize. Torriset studied at the National Academy of Fine ...

Edvard Munch will be shown as a sociable rather than a reclusive artist in a new National Portrait Gallery exhibit.

Munch recalled the experience that inspired his painting in his private journals. “One evening I was walking out on a hilly path near Kristiania—with two comrades,” he wrote, using the old ...

‘Rarely have I had so close a spiritual bond with any artist as that which I had with Munch’, Stanisław Przybyszewski wrote of the best-known Norwegian painter. At that time, the two were further ...

In principle, not much. The Spanish romantic artist and the Norwegian painter lived in separate times and spaces. The latter was born 35 years after the death of the first one… and he wasn’t a ...

The Norwegian painter is best known for his harrowing images of existential dread, most famously depicting what he called a “scream passing through nature”. However, curators at the National ...