The Beginning of German Expressionism

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“Landscape in Dresden,” 1910, by Erich Heckel.

Roberta Smith writes:

The original bad boys of 20th-century German art got together in June of 1905. Partly inspired by the city’s many bridges, they called themselves the Brücke (or bridge). They felt it implied the future and stuff left behind.

Their art is the subject of “Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913” at the Neue Galerie.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie

The Beginning of German Expressionism

The collective rawness of early 20th-century German art still startles, as seen in “Brücke,” at the Neue Galerie. Roberta Smith reviews.