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In this woodcut manifesto, Brücke artists "call together all youth. . . . in opposition to older, well established powers. Whoever renders directly and authentically that which impels him to create is one of us." Brücke artists also used woodcuts to embellish the annual reports, exhibition announcements, and catalogues they sent to "passive members"—patrons who supported the group through annual donations.
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, March 27–July 11, 2011.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880–1938 176 works onlineIn 1905, painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, along with Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel , and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff —all untrained in the visual arts—founded the artists’ group Die Brücke , or “The Bridge,” a moment that is now considered the birth of German Expressionism.
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A public declaration, often political in nature, of a group or individual’s principles, beliefs, and intended courses of action. Manifestos typically materialize as written documents.
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