Berlin - Brücke Museum

The low modern building of the Brücke Museum in the Grunewald of Berlin's Zehlendorf district was built in 1967 by Werner Düttmann, architect of the Academy of Arts in the Tiergarten, as a gallery and archive for the works of the group of Expressionist painters founded in Dresden in 1905 and known as "Die Brücke" ("The Bridge"). The initiative for the establishment of the museum came from the Berlin artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, one of the founders of the group, who presented a large number of his works. Among other members of the group represented in the museum by paintings, water colors, drawings and sculptures are Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller and Max Pechstein. The museum also has works by other painters, including