Das Kind und der Tod, 1899, by Edvard Munch (*Engelhaugen/Løten ... but what I saw,” he wrote of works like Death in the Sickroom. Munch’s painting of a child standing before her dead mother ...

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...