The Brücke Museum in

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houses the world's largest collection of works by members of the group ''

Die Brücke The Brücke (Bridge), also Künstlergruppe Brücke or KG Brücke was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. Founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Later memb ...

'' ("The Bridge"), an early 20th-century German

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

movement.

Origins

Opened in 1967, it features around 400 paintings and sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolours and prints by members of ''Die Brücke'', the movement founded in 1905 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

. The collection includes a donation from the painter

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. Life and work Schmidt-Rottluff was born in R ...

to the state of Berlin, and a later donation from

Erich Heckel Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group ''Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer ...

featuring key works from the early years of the movement.

Location

The museum is located in an idyllic natural setting in Dahlem, not far from the former studio of the sculptor Arno Breker. It conducts research into works by the founding members of the movement and their early 20th-century milieu and contemporaries.Forschung
. Brücke-Museum. Retrieved 24 December 2019. The museum presents both a continually changing selection of its own works, and frequent special exhibitions of works on loan.

Notes

External links

Brücke Museum website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brucke Museum Art museums and galleries in Berlin Buildings and structures in Steglitz-Zehlendorf Modern art museums in Germany Art museums established in 1967 1967 establishments in Germany