Antwerp’s newest museum, the Museum De Reede brings a valuable modernist addition to the city’s rich collection of Baroque art. The museum is solely dedicated to graphic art, or artwork produced on paper. It mainly features the works of Francisco Goya, the father of Modernist art, Edvard Munch, best known for his iconic painting The Scream, and Félicien Rops, the pioneer of Belgian comics.

Critical observers of their time, these three artists embodied the spirit of Modernist art by unflinchingly communicating the ills and injustices of their respective societies. Its collection includes a series of Munch’s lithographs, which are lesser known than The Scream but more powerfully portray the same despair communicated in the painting. Goya’s print series Los Caprichos, depicting the follies of early 18th century Spanish society, can also be found here.

Situated in a sleek, minimalist building along the Scheldt, the museum is a Modernist version of the Plantin-Moretus House, and continues Antwerp’s love affair with graphic arts.