Kommentar: Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye”; Centre Pompidou, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and Tate Modern, London. Organised in close conjunction with the Munch-museet in Oslo, the exhibition “Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye” showcases a rarely known selection of major works and offers an entirely new slant on the artist by setting up a dialogue between his pictorial æuvre and his fascination with cutting-edge forms of artistic expression, such as photography, film and the revival of theatrical staging. Munch, often presented as a Symbolist or pre-Expressionist nineteenth century painter, actually died in 1944, the same year as Kandinsky and Mondrian, and is revealed here as a determinedly twentieth century artist, steeped in the modernity of is age.