Max Pechstein: Female with Indian on a Carpet, 1910
Oil on Canvas
Wolfgang Ketterer Collection
Photo courtesy of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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Die Brücke
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MADRID • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza • Ongoing
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The Brücke artists group was formed in 1905 in Dresden. Its members included the architecture students Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller were among the most outstanding painters who later joined this association, which broke up definitively in 1913. The eight intensive years of activity of this group witnessed the greatest development of the first period of German expressionism, which went through various stylistic phases marked precisely by the artistic objectives shared by its most important members.
The Die Brücke exhibition is being held to coincide with the centenary of the creation of this important group of pioneer artists of German Expressionism. It aims to show the characteristics of this movement, through the most outstanding works of the group’s painters, with particular emphasis on their contribution from 1905 to 1913, the year in which the association was dissolved in Berlin.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Fundación Caja Madrid, the organisers of the event, present at the same time in their respective venues this commemorative exhibition. The first five sections are on display in the rooms of the Fundación Caja Madrid at the Casa de las Alhajas, while the following six sections are shown in the temporary exhibitions rooms at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
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