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Berlin’s Brücke Museum settles with the heirs of a Jewish collector on Kirchner painting

The Brücke Museum in Berlin reached a settlement with the heirs of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell an important painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, now in the museum’s collection, after he ...
The Art Newspaper

Key member of Die Brücke art movement gets museum in hometown

A new museum in a village on the western fringe of Chemnitz, past stables where horses munch placidly on hay, honours one of this eastern German city’s most famous sons: the artist Karl ...
Artnet

A Berlin Museum Settles With Jewish Heirs to Keep a Contested Kirchner Painting

An important painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, sold under duress by Jewish collector and dealer Victor Wallerstein during World War II, can stay in its current home, Berlin’s Brücke Museum, after a ...
World Socialist Web Site

Modern art in Germany and the Nazis Part 2: The Die Brücke painters

Two art exhibitions currently on display in Berlin raise important questions about the relationship of certain modern German artists to the Nazi regime (1933-1945). In Part 1, we discussed the ...