Neue Galerie New York opened "Munch and Expressionism" on February 18, 2016, presenting Edvard Munch as a decisive source for German and Austrian Expressionism. Organized with the Munch Museum in Oslo and curated by Jill Lloyd with Reinhold Heller, the exhibition centered on the formal and psychological routes by which Munch's prints and paintings shaped artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele. Its public draw included the 1895 pastel version of The Scream, but the show's art-historical claim was broader: it reframed Munch not as an isolated Symbolist icon but as an active precursor whose handling of anxiety, sexuality, and modern urban life helped define Expressionist language.
The exhibition strengthened Munch's position as a transnational catalyst for Expressionism.
![Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse], by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/dance-hall-bellevue-obverse--d1e14aac4297c69e-w320.webp)
