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Brücke, die
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(Ger ‘bridge’)
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pronunciation:
[brüker]
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| The name adopted by a group of avant-garde artists active in Dresden, 1905–13, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmitt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel (1883–1970), and slightly later, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein. Unlike the more abstract Blaue Reiter group, they painted portraits, landscapes, and figurative subjects in a crude, harsh style based on van Gogh and Gauguin, and influenced by Oceanic art in Dresden Ethnological Museum. Their most striking works are prints, especially bold and expressive woodcuts. |
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