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The book cover for Munch A-Z by Ulf Küster, featuring the painting The Scream.
The cover of Munch A-Z by Ulf Küster, featuring Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
A book titled Munch A-Z by Ulf Küster, standing against a white background. The cover features Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream, which depicts a figure with an agonized expression on a bridge under a swirling, orange sky. The publisher's name, Hatje Cantz, is at the bottom right.
A hardcover book titled Munch A-Z by Ulf Küster, set against a plain white background. The book is angled to show the front cover and spine, which both feature Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream.
A studio photograph of an open art book showing Edvard Munch's 1911 painting, The Sun. The expressionist painting is spread across two pages and depicts a vibrant, stylized sun with long, multi-colored rays of light radiating over a dark, rocky coastal landscape and the sea below.
The back cover of a book featuring German text set against an expressionist painting. The artwork shows a swirling, dark blue sea under a vibrant sky of red, orange, and yellow horizontal strokes. A white box with a barcode and ISBN is located in the bottom right corner.
An open book viewed from above. The left page has a reddish-brown background and shows Edvard Munch's 1896 lithograph Loslösung II, depicting a woman with long blonde hair and a man with dark hair. The right page is white and filled with German text about the artist's work.
A photograph of an open art book. The left page contains German text. The right page displays Edvard Munch's 1906 expressionist painting of Friedrich Nietzsche. The portrait shows the philosopher in a dark suit standing on a bridge, overlooking a swirling, colorful landscape with a yellow sky.
A page from a book about artist Edvard Munch, featuring a column of German text on the left and a color reproduction of his 1923/24 self-portrait, The Night Wanderer, on the right. The expressionist painting shows a gaunt, weary-looking Munch with yellowish hair and a troubled expression, standing in a dark room at night rendered in shades of blue, green, and brown.
A two-page book spread. The left page contains a block of German text on a white background. The right page has a dark teal background with the title R → Revolver above a vintage, sepia-toned X-ray of Edvard Munch's left hand from 1902, showing an injury to the middle finger.
A black and white photograph from 1933 shows the artist Edvard Munch painting in his open-air winter studio. He stands in profile, wearing a suit and hat, working at an easel. He is surrounded by many of his finished paintings, mostly nudes and portraits, which are hung on or leaning against the wall of the building.
A page from a book displaying two versions of Edvard Munch's 1918 artwork, Mädchen auf der Brücke (Girls on the Bridge). On the left is a black-and-white woodcut. On the right is a color print of the same scene, predominantly blue and white. Both expressionist images show girls on a bridge, with houses and trees in the background. German text accompanies the images.
A two-page spread from a book in German. On the left is an alphabetical index of terms related to the artist Edvard Munch, from A for Angst to Z for Zoo, each with a corresponding page number. The page on the right is the foreword, titled Vorwort und Dank, which introduces the artist and his work.
A page from a publication with a two-column layout. The left column is reddish-brown and features the heading Film, Fotografie, along with a black-and-white self-portrait of an elderly Edvard Munch from 1930. The right column contains a body of text in German discussing Munch's photography.
An Expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, Children in the Forest. A group of small children walks along a grassy field at the edge of a dark, menacing forest. The stylized trees loom like large figures under a turbulent, deep blue sky with a pale moon, creating an unsettling and dreamlike atmosphere.
An expressionist painting by Edvard Munch titled The Sun. A large, brilliant white and yellow sun hangs over a blue sea, sending out powerful, radiating beams of light in yellow, orange, red, and blue. The dynamic rays fill the sky and illuminate a rugged landscape of rocky cliffs in the foreground.
Edvard Munch: A-Z
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Author: Ulf Küster
June 2025, 120 Pages
Hardcover
136mm x 202mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5944-1

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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Edvard Munch is one of the most famous painters of the early 20th century and a role model for many artists to this day. His legendary painting "The Scream" even inspired a popular emoji, something that no other artist has ever achieved. Munch had a unique way of placing himself as an individual in the foreground of his art, making his psychological state the subject of his work. In doing so, he created a personal and at the same time universal "diary of the soul" that still captivates us today, as international exhibitions of the Norwegian artist show. In twenty-six short chapters, from A for anxiety to G for ghosts, R for revolvers and Z for zoo, familiar but also surprising aspects of his art and life are presented in a compelling way.

In his painterly and graphic work Edvard Munch (1863-1944) made feelings and states of mind the subject of his work. In intense colors and expressive figuration, he created a highly individual artistic language that makes his oeuvre as enigmatic as it is appealing. Born in Norway, his travels took him to Paris and Berlin, where he cultivated contacts with important writers, artists, and intellectuals of the time. He spent the end of his life in seclusion in Oslo, where he died in 1944. 

The art historian Ulf Küster (*1966, Stuttgart) has worked at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel since 2004. He has curated internationally acclaimed exhibitions and written numerous publications. His books on Edward Hopper and Piet Mondrian (A-Z series) and Louise Bourgeois (Kunst zum Lesen series) have been published by Hatje Cantz.
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