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120 Years of Brücke. 120 Berliners. 120 Artworks
29. March – 22. June 2025
A major collection presentation celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Brücke artists’ group, the art of Expressionism and the Brücke-Museum.   On 7 June 1905, four young architecture students came together in Dresden to form the Brücke artists’ group: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl had no …

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Artiste, 1910,Brücke-Museum

Perfect Match with atelier le balto
Today, 15. May 2025
6.00 – 7.00pm
One hundred twenty Berliners have each selected a work of art from the Brücke-Museum’s collection. In a Perfect Match, some of the co-curators talk to museum staff about their connection to the Brücke. Project manager Julia Reinschüssel invites the landscape architects atelier le balto to a conversation to share their …
A print, black on white of two bare trees

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Bäume im Winter, 1905, Holzschnitt auf Japanpapier, Brücke-Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

In Dialogue - Art studios
17. May 2025
3.00 – 4.00pm
Two experts exchange their views on the central themes of Brücke art and connect them to current questions about art, art history and activism. With Kassandra Nakas (art historian) and Thesea Rigou Efstathopoulos (artist and art educator) Studio views appear in some of the Brücke artists’ works. After moving to Berlin, …
Expressionist oil painting, an artist stands on the right in half profile and paints a naked woman

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel und Modell im Atelier, 1905, Öl auf Pappe, Brücke-Museum, Gemeinfreies Werk

Ich mag immer Publikum bleiben
Book Presentation
18. May 2025
2.00pm
With Julia Schäfer (teacher and curator) in conversation with Daniela Bystron (curator for outreach, Brücke-Museum)   Ich mag immer Publikum bleiben. Vermittlung als kuratorische Praxis (I Like to Remain in the Audience: Education as Curatorial Practice) is the title of curator Julia Schäfer’s latest book. In this comprehensive and wide-ranging book, she …
Book pages, on the left a black and white photo of people in a museum, on the right the book title

From the Book Ich mag immer Publikum bleiben

Public Tour
18. May 2025
12.00 – 1.00pm
Public tours give visitors the opportunity to jointly discuss the current exhibition 120 Years of Brücke, 120 Berliners, 120 Art Works 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, visitors can …
A print of the letter B in black on white with geometric decorations

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Initiale B, 1920, woodcut, Brücke-Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Public Tour in English
25. May 2025
2.00 – 3.00pm
Public tours give visitors the opportunity to jointly discuss the current exhibition 120 Years of Brücke, 120 Berliners, 120 Art Works 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, visitors can …
Expressionist painting of a village street, with a tree on the left and a house on the right

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Dorfecke, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, Brücke-Museum, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

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History
The Brücke-Museum

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. …

Photograph black and white, A woman in the exhibition stands on one leg to lean closer to a painting

Installation view of the first collection display, 1967, photo: Ingeborg Lommatzsch © Ingeborg Lommatzsch

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