Edvard Munch, who never married, ... He memorialized their relationship in The Dance of Life of 1899-1900, set on midsummer's night in Aasgaardstrand, ...

Austria on Wednesday returned a painting by Edvard Munch, called "Summer Night on the Beach," to the granddaughter of the composer Gustav Mahler, ending a 60-year legal battle.

Edvard Munch was born and died in the depths of the Norwegian winter and claimed that “disease, insanity and death were the black angels that stood at my cradle”.

With short-tempered artist “Ludvig Karsten”, Munch came to physical blows on Midsummer Eve 1905, when painting him, with mixed hostility/affection, as a flamboyant flâneur in a white suit ...