Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is regarded as one of the greatest artists in world history. His most famous paintings include The Kiss (1897) and The Scream (1893). 
Edvard Munch was raised as a devout Lutheran. As an adult, however, he abandoned the strongly-held Protestant Christian beliefs that had shaped his childhood. Munch was never again an orthodox member of any religious denomination or formally organized religion, but he remained intensely interested in spirituality and religion. Munch and his wife were involved in and interested in Spiritualism.
