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Brücke

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Brücke (German) [ˈbrykə]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) die (diː). a group of German Expressionist painters (1905-13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
[German: literally, the bridge]


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The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke ("The Bridge") derived their name from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts of the period.
 
 
 
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