Van Gogh + Munch at the Munch Museet, Oslo: shared methods and attitudes

Even though they never met, exhibition focuses on the relationship between the two iconoclasts of modern paintingOne died in 1890, young and little known, whereas the other lived long and achieved fame, only passing away in 1944. So we don’t tend to think of them as contemporaries. Yet Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch were born only a decade a part, the former in 1853 in the Netherlands, the latter 10 years later in Norway. In the 1880s they were among the many painters seeking a break from t