BREMEN.- An exceptional discovery is the starting point for this major exhibition of the Norwegian pioneer of modern art: In 2005, during an examination of Munchs painting Child and Death (1899), a second canvas was found, displaying a previously unknown painting by the artist: Girl and Three Male Heads (1895-98). In 1918, the Kunsthalles Director Emil Waldmann purchased the aforementioned work for 20.000 marks. It was the first painting by the Norwegian artist to be acquired by a German museum and one of the first ever to enter a public collection. He could not have known that the painting harbored another canvas by Munch hidden beneath the original one. Only when the Munch Museum in Oslo requested that the Bremen work to be closely examined in preparation for the artists catalogue raisonné, did a conservator at the Kunsthalle discover the second canvas. The original canvas was removed and mounted on its own stretcher with the re