An illuminating examination of how mental illness informs and connects the charged works of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) are considered visionaries of modernism, and were also pioneers in printmaking, avoiding dominance in a single technique in favor of an experimental approach across multiple. They worked in an aesthetic mode where they did not simply reproduce what they saw but filtered everything through their own imagination and memories. They utilized the perceptual and emotional power of color and abstraction for their creative expression, depicting what they perceived as a fragmented and harrowing reality. Both artists suffered from episodes of anxiety and depression, struggled with substance use, and received psychiatric care. This work includes unpublished prints from the collection of Nelson Blitz Jr. and Catherine Woodard, as well as remarkable prints, lithographs, and hand-colored woodcuts from selected public and private collections in the United States. This edition places these two giants of expressionism in dialogue, highlighting mental health issues and offering a new approach that combines the history of art with the history of medical care. The included studies examine the artistic affinities and divergences in their printmaking, as well as the ways in which they used shadows to imagine pathological psychological and psychiatric experiences in their art.