On June 7, 1905, four young architecture students founded the artist group Brücke in Dresden. Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl want nothing less than to rewrite art history. Their drive for change contrasts with a time marked by the conservative attitude of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a bourgeois bourgeoisie. The first years of the Brücke are marked by the search for a new, artistic form of expression and collective activities as a group. 

We cordially invite you and your friends and families to Museum Sunday!

Cracks, fissures or grains: No two pieces of wood are alike. Therefore, woodblock printing is a printing technique in which nature has a great influence. Now you can try out this special technique in the forest room between the Brücke Museum and the Kunsthaus Dahlem! You will get to know a sophisticated printing technique, think about the themes of nature and the forest, and incorporate them into your image design. The works of the Brücke artists can also give you ideas for this.

Let’s go to the forest to be outside and create art. Because there you will find suitable materials and there is a lot of space. The works in the Brücke Museum can serve as inspiration.

The very choice of wood as a grown material was a small revolution at the beginning of the 20th century. Exactly what earlier generations of artists had cut to size, polished smooth, or painted over appealed to the Brücke artists: grain, cracks, unevenness, even the irregularly grown form. All the randomness of nature was now incorporated into the design. It became an artistic program.

With Viviane Tabach and Theseas Efstathopoulos (art mediators of documenta fifteen), moderated by Daniela Bystron (curator for outreach, Brücke Museum). The Brücke group of artists formed in 1905 as an artistic community and came to the public with their vision of change. 

In the middle of the forest, surrounded by nature - that’s what it feels like when we are in the forest room, in the garden of the Brücke Museum. And this is exactly what we take as an occasion for joint artistic experiments: In nature we draw, build and design with materials from the forest.

The very choice of wood as a grown material was a small revolution at the beginning of the 20th century. Exactly what earlier generations of artists had cut to size, polished smooth, or painted over appealed to the Brücke artists: grain, cracks, unevenness, even the irregularly grown form. All the randomness of nature was now incorporated into the design. It became an artistic program.

In the middle of the forest, surrounded by nature - that’s what it feels like when we are in the forest room, in the garden of the Brücke Museum. And this is exactly what we take as an occasion for joint artistic experiments: In nature we draw, build and design with materials from the forest.