Munch – Golgotha (1900) | Expressionist Religious Oil Painting

Swirling crowd of distorted faces in muted greens and ochres surrounds three crucifixion crosses against a blood-red sky, painted with heavy impasto brushwork

Edvard Munch reinterprets the crucifixion as a scene of collective psychological anguish, replacing traditional piety with writhing spectators whose faces blur into masks of suffering. The composition channels the artist’s grief following his father’s death, transforming Golgotha into an arena of existential dread rendered in suffocating earth tones punctuated by arterial reds.