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Provides some history about the Brücke Museum and presents 100 color photographs of works by Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller, and others.
The Br cke Museum in Berlin houses the world's largest collection of works by the early twentieth-century expressionist movement Die Br cke, or The Bridge. Formed in Dresden by Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, this group had a major impact on the evolution of modern art. But as Escape into Art? reveals, they were also affected by the rise of Germany's National Socialist party in the 1930s. Discussing in detail the everyday reality of the Br cke artists under National Socialism, this book takes a critical look at the fates and artistic practice of the movement's former members in the years after 1933. Explaining the measures carried out against Br c...
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and ...
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"In June 1905, four young architecture students in Dresden gave their eruption onto the art scene a name: Brücke (Bridge). The group were united by their protest against established and sclerotic forms of art, adn by their yearning to bring art and life together. Life studies in the studio and free drawing in the open air were the starting-points of their artistic endeavour. For the Expressionist artists of the Brücke, the human being is at the centre of creation. Today, the fascination of this human image comes across more strongly than ever, both because it is authentic and also because it is able to reach out and address this existential condition of each and every beholder." -- Page 4 of cover.
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various manifestations: vivid renderings of rural life; candid studio portraits; and searing, critical depictions of the rapidly changing urban milieu. It demonstrates how this group of young firebrands invigorated and altered the art of their time." "Exhibition schedule: Neue Galerie, New York , February 26 - June 29, 2009." --Book Jacket.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 27-July 11, 2011.
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.