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German Expressionism, though a "movement" that lasted only fifteen years (1905-1920) consisted of two such steps. The founding of Die Brucke--"The Bridge"--by Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl (who was rather a sleeping partner), crystallized a common effort to develop a new artistic voice. These academy-trained ex-architecture students consciously rejected the socially imposed aesthetic of turn-of-the-century Germany, summed up in the refined nuances of the "Jugendstil" school of painting, and tried to work from an aesthetic of strong, elemental statements. Though anti-bourgeois in their rejection...
...students turned artists in Dresden in 1905 who called themselves Die Brücke (The Bridge) in the confident expectation that they would "attract all the revolutionary and surging elements." With the "audacious idea of renewing German art" the Bridge group-Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and later Max Pechstein-set up their studio in an empty shoe store...
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