Geschrei (The Scream)

1895

Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

Printed in black on cream-white paper, a person standing on a bridge holds both hands to their oval-shaped head in this stylized lithograph. The person’s waifish body creates an S-shape, and their hollow eyes look slightly off to the left. The face has exaggeratedly high cheekbones, and the mouth is open in a tall oval. The bridge stretches from the bottom right corner of the print to the middle of the left edge of the sheet. Two black silhouettes represent people at the far end of the bridge. A curving form in the distance suggests a body of water with a couple of masted ships near the coastline. The rest of the landscape is carved with woodgrain-like, closely spaced, organic lines, and waves surge across the sky. A printed inscription in the margin below the image reads “Geschrei” and a pencil inscription in the lower right corner reads, “Edw Munch No 21.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48.3 x 38.8 cm (19 x 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.9038

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Woll 2001, no. 38, State only

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 130-131, repro.

1956

  • Steinlen and Munch: Shadow and Substance, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 1956, no catalogue.

1959

  • Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.

1960

  • Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 57, repro.

1964

  • The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 23.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 115.

  • Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 147.

2013

  • Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute, NGA, 2013.

2020

  • Edvard Munch and the Cycle of Life, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1907

  • Schiefler, Gustav. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906. vol. 1. Berlin, 1907 (reprinted 1974); and Schiefler, Gustav. Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1926. vol. 2. Berlin, 1927. (reprinted 1974).

1994

  • Ballatore, Sandy. Romantic Modernism, 100 Years. Santa Fe, 1994: 18, repro.

1995

  • Alger, Sandra L.H. Games for Teaching Art. Portland, Maine, 1995: 3, 26, 45 (reproduced on each).

  • Köpp, Gisela. Leben mit Stimme-Stimme mit Leben: Die Atem- und Stimmkunst der Clara Schlaffhorst und Hedwig Andersen. Kassel, Basel, London, New York, and Prague, 1995: p. 313.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 594, 601, 628, fig.10.11, 596.

2001

  • Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 261, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q65019670

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