Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) never met, but they had plenty in common. Both were fascinated by the human body, particularly its capacity for pain, fear, and anxiety. Munch, best known for The Scream, painted his anxieties about love, illness, and death. Lassnig developed what she called “body awareness” paintings, images that depicted her body not as it looked but as she felt it from within. Munch was a major influence on Lassnig. Last winter, an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle brought the two artists together for the first time. It is now in Zürich and features some 150 works, with loans from Oslo’s Munch Museum and the Maria Lassnig Foundation, in Vienna. —Elena Clavarino