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Katalog Ausstellung Brücke.
Bound volume with complete text and 15 woodcuts (including the cover), 1910. 230x173 mm; 9x6 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins.
Printed by Gärtnersche Buchdruckerei and Heinrich Niescher, Dresden. Published by Galerie Arnold, Dresden. Original yellowish, orange tan paper covers.
Includes woodcuts by HECKEL, KIRCHNER, PECHSTEIN, MUELLER and SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF. Very good impressions.
"This catalogue for the Brücke's breakthrough exhibition in September 1910 at the prestigious Galerie Ernst Arnold in Dresden reflects the spirit of collectivity that pervaded the group at the time. Eleven of the book's twenty woodcuts [including Kirchner's decorations surrounding his specially-designed text] see Brücke artists interpreting paintings by fellow members rather than highlighting their own artistic creations, each composition a flattened, simplified black-and-white version of its colorful counterpart. On the cover, Erich Heckel tackled Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Fränzi mit Puppe (Fränzi with doll). In the seminal show that the catalogue documents, the Brücke's four main members—Heckel, Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff—were given equal wallspace"--Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the MoMA Collection. 2011.
