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Teena

@atelieracht.bsky.social

Ahoi Schweden 🇸🇪

#DieBrücke

May 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM

abracadabrant.bsky.social

@abracadabrant.bsky.social

Kees Van Dongen The White Lady, 1926 #keesvandongen #art #fauvisme #diebrücke #figurativeart

May 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Murat_add

@murat-add.bsky.social

Emil Nolde💦
#art #emilnolde #diebrücke

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM

Njal Nova

@njalnova.bsky.social

Hermann Max Pechstein

Clouds in the Evening - Abendwolken

1910s
Oil on canvas
German Expressionism
Die Brücke

Pechstein was one of the core shapers of Expressionism
His evening cloud studies show how he pushed color into tension

#Artist #ArtHistory #Expressionism #Landscape #DieBrücke #Painting

September 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

#art #expressionism #modernart #ernstludwigkirchner #germany #diebrucke #InterieurmitzweiMädchen #painting #modernpainting #expressionistpainting #c1926

phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Apr 14

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner :
Interior with Two Women, 1926

Oil on canvas

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Painted while in Switzerland, the work reflects changing social roles of women and a deep interest in interiority and the human psyche following the upheavals of World War I.

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Composition:
The scene depicts two women in a domestic setting. One woman is reclining on a lush green sofa wearing a white dress, while the other stands beside her as a dark silhouette in a black dress.

Visual Elements:
The room is filled with high-contrast, vibrant colors including bright green walls, a red cabinet, and a patterned rug. A table with a lamp and framed pictures on the wall add to the intimate atmosphere.

Artistic Style:
The painting is a prime example of Kirchner's later Expressionist style, utilizing bold brushstrokes and slightly distorted forms to convey psychological tension and subjective emotion rather than a literal representation of reality.

April 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM

Omas gegen Rechts Frankfurt Uffbasse

@ogrffmuffbasse.bsky.social

#DieBrücke sehenswert grausam

September 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM

H. K. Deeb

@hadideeb.bsky.social

"We never taste perfect joy."
-- Pierre Corneille

#quotes #quotesoftheday #quoteoftheday #quote #LiteraturePosts #quote #book #books #voice #literary #art #poetrylovers #life #death #joy #Corneille #perfection #love #OttoMüller #painting #Germany #expressionist #DieBrücke

February 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Museo Privado 🔻

@museoprivado.bsky.social

Bar in #Cairo 1920 #KeesvanDongen 1877-1968) #pintor #neerlandés Se estableció en #París en 1897 y obtuvo la nacionalidad francesa en 1929. Fue miembro del grupo #fovista y, por un breve período del movimiento expresionista alemán #DieBrücke #museoparticular #art

December 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM

Nathan Rutkowski

@nrutkowski1.bsky.social

Flowers at Jim’s and Flowers for KSR

Gouache on paper 9 x 12 inches

Lately I’m looking a lot at Karl Schmidt Rottluff, Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckl, and Max Pechstein. The Die Brucke group. The way they worked from life with an intensity.

#communityofartists #diebrucke

June 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM

First Amendment Girl

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social

Cake-Walk by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1911, Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)

#Art #ModernArt #GermanExpressionism #DieBrücke

More in alt text

"Cake-Walk" is a vivid and dynamic composition,
characterized by bold colors and expressive forms. The scene depicts two figures engaged in an active and
lively dance. The loopuse of contrasting colors--particularly the blues and blacks against a background of greens and earthy tones--highlight
the fluidity and energy of the dancers. The figures are rendered with a sense
of movement and rhythm, reflecting the dynamism intrinsic to the dance they are performing. Kirchner's
technique emphasizes the emotional intensity and physical exuberance of
the moment, encapsulating the essence of Expressionism through distorted shapes and a vivid color palette.

December 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM

Sabine Karrer 🖇️

@realfraukassandra.bsky.social

Weil ich grad viel Zeit hab 🤒 und Netflix Ende Dezember #DieBrücke aus dem Programm nimmt, binge ich grad nochmal alle Folgen. 🥰 Faszinierend aber, wie vieles noch komplett präsent ist, während einzelne Handlungsstränge komplett aus meinem Hirn verschwunden sind. 🤯

December 14, 2023 at 9:47 PM

Mehr Lametta

@morelametta.bsky.social

Ich schaue mir gerade zum zweiten Mal #dieBrücke in der #arte-Mediathek an.
Intelligenter Krimi, wirklich empfehlenswert.
4 Staffeln.

January 29, 2026 at 8:22 PM

Prof. Dr. Dr. Homo Dingsbums

@onkelsams.bsky.social

Ihr müsst nicht tausendmal traurig #Schindlers-Liste und #DieBrücke schauen!

Ihr müsst euch auch mal #DjangoUnchained und #Sisu ansehen! 🤷‍♂️

January 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist

@pharology.bsky.social

#LighthouseArt of the Day

Erich Heckel (German, 1883-1970), " #Leuchtturm ( #Lighthouse)," 1929, #water-colour on paper.

Private collection, 📸 by Sotheby's, sothebys.com

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#art #artsky #MaritimeArt #GermanArt #EuropeanArt #Kunst #DeutscheKunst #seascape #DieBrücke #expressionism

A highlu impressionistic, almost abstract painting of waves breaking gently on a sandy beach under a sky filed with white clouds. A white lighthouse, almost invisible against the sky, stands on a rocky outcropping at the right.

April 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Becci van der Meyden

@genderbeitrag.bsky.social

Serien-Reviews auch einfach ein Quell guter Lebensweisheiten:

(Falls jemand fragt: Ich gucke #DieBrücke)

Text-Screenshot:
The ending confirms a theory I have since years: single men outside Japan who own a katana are potential serial killers.

July 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Cronologia

@cronologia.bsky.social

Years before, Kirchner co-founded Die Brücke in 1905, a radical group that shattered academic art conventions with raw, vibrant expressionism. His street scenes of Berlin captured the nervous energy of modern life, scandalizing the establishment. The art world wasn't ready. #modernart #diebrücke

May 6, 2026 at 8:32 AM

Metal Insider

@metalinsider.bsky.social

The Hirsch Effekt drop “Die Brücke” video:

#TheHirschEffekt #DieBrucke #NewSong #NewVideo #JanuaryReleases

Link: metalinsider.net/video/the-hi...

The Hirsch Effekt drop “Die Brücke” video | Metal Insider

“Die Brücke” is the third glimpse into Der Brauch, the band’s upcoming album arriving January 30 via Long Branch Records.

metalinsider.net

January 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM

First Amendment Girl

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social

Portrait of Rosa Schapire by Walter Gramatté, 1920, Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin, Germany)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Expressionism #GermanExpressionism #DieBrücke

Currently on display in Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 at the Albuquerque Museum, through January 4, 2026

For more on Rosa Schapire, see https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schapire-rosa

1920 was an eventful year for Gramatté: Ferdinand Möller set up a show in his Berlin gallery, which was followed by exhibitions in Hamburg. There the painter also met Rosa Schapire (1874–1954), who received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1904 as one of the first women in art history. She had lived in Hamburg since 1905, and became an important patron of the Die Brücke (Bridge) artist group. Schapire published an essay on Gramatté's work in the "Cicerone" and remained his support and close personal confidant until his early death.

The “Portrait Rosa Schapire” was created at the end of August 1920 in Malente-Gremsmühlen, a spa in Holstein Switzerland where Gramatté and his wife Sonia were spending their vacation. Elegantly dressed in white, decorated with a chain and rose on the neckline, Schapire sits in a classic melancholic pose in the feast chair, the fingers of the left hand placed on the mouth and cheek. The questioningly critical look of her big dark eyes reveals the respect of the painter in front of the art expert. White-haired, bony, and serious, she looks older and narrower than she was back then. The blue background is crossed by the spherical red-yellow lights of a sunset over a large body of water (presumably the Dieksee). The waves on the water surface mirror the wave-shaped border of Schapire's dress.

August 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Pete

@petesky.bsky.social

La Silence De La Mer (1949) #JeanPierreMelville

#Schlöndorff #TheTinDrum #HiroshimaMonAmour #Renoir #NightAndFog #BernhardWicki #DieBrücke #Cabaret #Fosse
#LifeIsBeautiful #RobertoBenigni #HenriVerneuil #The25thHour
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youtu.be/0onsg5mSL0U?...

May 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM

First Amendment Girl

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social

Landscape with Houses and Man by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1907, Franz Marc Museum - Art in the 20th Century (Kochel am See, Germany)

#Art #ModernArt #DieBrücke #Expressionism

More about artist in alt text

Kirchner was a driving force in the Die Brücke group that flourished in Dresden and Berlin before World War I, and he has come to be seen as one of the most talented and influential of Germany's Expressionists. Motivated by the same anxieties that gripped the movement as a whole - fears about humanity's place in the modern world, its lost feelings of spirituality and authenticity - Kirchner had conflicting attitudes to the past and present. An admirer of Albrecht Dürer, he revived the old art of woodblock printing, and saw himself in the German tradition, yet he rejected academic styles and was inspired by the modern city. After the war, illness drove him to settle in Davos, Switzerland, where he painted many landscapes, and, ultimately, he found himself ostracized from mainstream German art. When the Nazis rose to power in the early 1930s he was also a victim of their campaign against "Degenerate Art." Depressed and ill, he eventually committed suicide.

September 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM

*Dobby im Urlaubsmodus*

@dobbytomato.bsky.social

Huch völlig vergessen hier weiter zu machen.
Also zwischenzeitlich #DieBrücke Staffel 1 und 2
#NightSky werde ich heute die letzte Folge schauen, ebenso noch die letzte Folge von #Crooks
Vorhin hab ich dann auch schon #Fallout angefangen 😅

April 14, 2024 at 7:26 PM