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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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Among those represented are the founder members of Die Brücke, later joined by Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde; the associates of Der Blaue Reiter, formed in Munich in 1911 by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter and later attracting August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky and Paul Klee; and various non-affiliated Viennese Expressionists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl, plus Lovis Corinth and Otto Dix.
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.
He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great watercolor painters of the 20th century.
 
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