Side by side, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh scream the birth of expressionism

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The exhibition Munch: Van Gogh shows the two artists, who never met, shared a passionate desire to paint the savage intensity of life – and it casts fresh light on the Dutchman’s tragedy
A gunshot and a scream reverberate through the yellow house, echo across the fjord, and fill a new exhibition at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam with pity and terror.In 1890 Vincent van Gogh fatally shot himself in the French countryside. Three years later the Norwegian pa