Bridge Museum Berlin
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| place | Berlin-Dahlem , Bussardsteig 9 |
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| architect | Werner Düttmann |
| opening | 15th September 1967 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-016317 |
The Brücke-Museum Berlin owns around 400 paintings and sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolors and graphics by artists of the artist group Brücke , which was founded in Dresden on June 7, 1905 . This makes it the world's largest coherent collection of works by these expressionist artists (as of 2015).
Emergence
The Brücke-Museum building was built as a low-rise building with an inner courtyard and four exhibition rooms based on plans by Werner Düttmann . It was opened on September 15, 1967 and its collection includes a donation from the painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to the State of Berlin . A donation from Erich Heckel added further works from the early years of the bridge to the collection . The Karl-und-Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation was established in 1976 and is located in the Brücke Museum in Berlin. The museum is located in idyllic surroundings in Berlin-Dahlem on the edge of the Grunewald in the immediate vicinity of the Kunsthaus Dahlem , the former studio of the sculptor Arno Breker .
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The bridge painter
The Brücke painters include the founding members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl , as well as the painters Max Pechstein , Emil Nolde , who joined in 1906, and Otto Mueller, who joined in 1910 . The bridge dissolved in 1913. The works in the collection of the Berlin Museum come from the entire creative period of the artist group.
The pictures of the Brücke painters are characterized by the simplification of the natural motifs to the essentials. The colors of the paintings are bright, applied over a large area and deliberately move away from the natural colors. The Brücke painters renounced “academism” and painted landscapes, naturalness and nudity spontaneously, impulsively and with dynamic brushwork. You painted in the studio and in nature. The Brücke painters pioneered expressionism .
Theft in 2002
In April, nine of the paintings with a total value of around 3.5 million euros were stolen. The three intruders were arrested on June 5th in Berlin-Wedding. The pictures were seized in Berlin-Tempelhof, but the painting Young Girl by Max Pechstein had been cut in half by the perpetrators.
Causa Kirchner
The process known as the Causa Kirchner occurred in 2006. The painting Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from 1913, which has been in the museum's possession since 1980, was given to the heiress Anita Halpins, the granddaughter of Great Britain , according to the Washington Declaration by the Jewish art collector Alfred Hess , restituted and then auctioned.
Tour through the exhibition
On the tour through the bright rooms, the pictures with their strong colors and the alienated, but still recognizable landscapes and people stand out. The viewer can expect an abundance of pictures from the Expressionist style of the Brücke painters.
Museum work
The work of the members of the bridge and the contemporary painters from the environment at the beginning of the 20th century are researched by the museum. In addition to changing presentations from the holdings, numerous special exhibitions on loan provide a comprehensive picture of German Expressionism and the art of the early 20th century in Germany.
At the beginning of October 2017, the art historian Lisa Marei Schmidt took over the management of the museum as Magdalena Moeller's successor .
Directors
- Leopold Reidemeister , founder, 1967 until his death in 1987
- Eberhard Roters , acting, 1987–1988
- Magdalena M. Moeller 1988-2017
- Lisa Marei Schmidt , since October 1, 2017
Special exhibitions (selection)
- 2011, February 11th – 17th July: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . Baltic Sea pictures. (35 paintings and 60 watercolors around the Baltic Sea from the Danish island of Alsen , Nidden on the Curonian Spit, Hohwacht on the Bay of Lübeck, Jershöft in Pomerania, the Pomeranian Rumbke on Lake Lebasee and Sierksdorf on the Bay of Lübeck).
- 2012, May 25–23. September: "Best regards ...", artist postcards
- 2013, June 21-23 November: Masterpieces - the most beautiful acquisitions of the Brücke Museum
- 2017, January 21, 2017–3. September: The artists of the "Brücke" - paintings, drawings and prints
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Brücke Museum has a new director. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 14, 2017, p. 23.
- ↑ Ulrike Krause, Enno Wiese: ADAC travel guide Berlin. ISBN 3-87003-726-1 , p. 141.
- ^ From Schmidt-Rottluff's curriculum vitae in the 2011 exhibition in the Brücke Museum entitled Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Baltic Sea pictures.
- ↑ Flyer Brücke-Museum Berlin from around 2000.
- ↑ The theft of the bridge pictures almost solved. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 30, 2002, accessed February 19, 2019.
- ↑ Berliner Brücke-Museum gets a new director. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Brücke Museum shows impressions from the Baltic Sea. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 14, 2011, p. 15.
- ↑ exhibitions. "Best regards…". Artist postcards from the "Brücke". May 25, 2012 to September 23, 2012. In: bruecke-museum.de. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; accessed on July 26, 2019 .
- ↑ exhibitions. Masterpieces - the most beautiful acquisitions of the Brücke Museum. June 21–6. October 2013. Extended until November 24, 2013. In: bruecke-museum.de. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013 ; accessed on July 26, 2019 .
- ↑ exhibitions. The artists of the "Brücke" - paintings, drawings and prints. In: bruecke-museum.de. June 14, 2017, archived from the original on March 15, 2017 ; accessed on July 26, 2019 (with links to further mementos on information and exhibition gallery).
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 25 ″ E