Scarred for Life

“Illness, insanity and death were the black angels that hovered over my cradle,” Munch wrote in his journal. This is certainly no exaggeration. His mother died of      tuberculosis when he was five, and his beloved sister Sofie followed ten years later. A younger sister went mad, and a brother also died. His father was a poorly paid army doctor, violent and harsh and given to bouts of deep depression and religious             obsession. His idea of childrearing included reading Edgar Allan Poe and Dostoyevsky aloud to the toddlers, which predictably scarred them for life. ("The Pain Painter," Henrik Bering via ALDaily)

Image: Vampire, Edvard Munch