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The Brücke-Museum is dedicating an extensive exhibition to its initiator, the artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Around 70 paintings from the donations made between 1964 and 1974 and the artistic estate of the founding member of the Brücke artists’ group are on view. The museum thus houses the world’s largest collection of Schmidt-Rottluff’s …

Tree branches covered with snow. — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, *Snow-covered Branches*, 1951, Oil on Canvas,Brücke-Museum, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

In a discussion within the exhibition space, artist and painter Ximena Ferrer Pizarro and curator Christiane Remm open up new perspectives on the exhibition. Ximena Ferrer Pizarro (b. Lima, Peru) draws from a collection of autoethnographic and communal narratives to paint sensitive and energetic scenes in which her figures confront the …

A harbour with a sailing ship in the middle. — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, *Fisherman's Cove*, 1937 Öl auf Leinwand, Brücke-Museum, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Public tours give visitors the opportunity to jointly discuss the current exhibition “The World Must Always be Seen Anew” – Painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff with art educators, who offer tours from diverse perspectives grounded in art history, visual art, contemporary history and pedagogics. Based on the backgrounds of our museum guides, …

Painting, two people in front of a dyke, signature: S-Rottluff 1910 — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, *Deichdurchbruch*, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, Brücke-Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Public tours give visitors the opportunity to jointly discuss the current exhibition “The World Must Always be Seen Anew” – Painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff with art educators, who offer tours from diverse perspectives grounded in art history, visual art, contemporary history and pedagogics. Based on the backgrounds of our museum guides, …

Painting of a green, flat landscape, two tall fir trees in the middle — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Landscape with Tall Fir Tree, 1950, oil on canvas, Brücke Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

With Ximena Ferrer Pizarro (artist) How can we discover our own expression beyond learned visual habits and dominant narratives? This workshop invites you to experiment freely with colour and materials, without fear of making mistakes. Inspired by the search for new forms of expression and a critical perspective on traditional visual …

Expressionist oil painting, a winding country road, to the right a white blossoming tree in front of a garden wall, in the background a large house — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Taunusfrühling, 1951, Öl auf Leinwand, Brücke-Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

“My dear Mr. Düttmann, now that the furore of the opening has died down, I would like to waste no time in thanking you most sincerely once again. Your building for Brücke-Museum is a creation one can’t help but praise … The building has good proportions and correct dimensions throughout … and the landscape has been incorporated in a way that is nothing short of exhilarating. It will no doubt bring cheer to each and every visitor while they are here … Yours always, KSR” …

Photography black and white, white, flat museum building between tall, dark trees, in the foreground a parking lot with two cars — Outside view of Brücke-Museum, September 1967, photo: Reinhard Friedrich, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Werner Düttmann Archive, No. 33 F.33/8

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In 1964, the artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff initiated the establishment of a museum in his city of residence Berlin to honour the artists’ group Brücke. With a donation to the State of Berlin, he laid the foundation for its collection. Just three years later, on 15 September 1967, Brücke-Museum opened in a new building designed by Werner Düttmann in Berlin’s Dahlem district. …

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