Dresden and Berlin

Bridge to the Future

Die Brücke in Dresden, with Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1905–1911

In 1905 four young artists in Dresden formed a group and named it Die Brücke, "the Bridge." They wanted an art that was direct and unpolished. In the same years, with no tie to the group, Paula Modersohn-Becker was simplifying form in her own way.

• Modersohn-Becker's pictures of 1906, made apart from the Dresden painters
• The Brücke painters' subjects: city streets, stage performers, studio sitters and landscape
• Prints and quick drawings, made alongside the paintings

Works in this part

• Self-Portrait on Her Sixth Wedding Anniversary
• Still Life with Apples and Green Glass
• Street, Dresden
• Fränzi in Front of Carved Chair
• Czardas Dancers
• Elias Cemetery in Dresden
• English Step Dancers
• Houses in Dresden with People Strolling

Image: Wikimedia Commons · PD-Art