The Brücke group
Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff — the heart of German Expressionism.
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A term the Nazi regime used for modern art it deemed hostile to German values — Expressionism, Cubism, Dada and abstraction. In 1937 an exhibition of that name was staged in Munich to hold such work up to ridicule, and around twenty thousand works were confiscated from German museums, some sold abroad and some destroyed. Many artists were banned from working or emigrated.
A regional train from Munich to Bernried in about fifty minutes then a twenty-minute walk or a bus. By car it is around forty minutes. In season boats run on Lake Starnberg and stop near the museum — the finest way to arrive. Make a full day of it with a walk along the shore.
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An art museum on the shore of Lake Starnberg south of Munich, built by Lothar-Günther Buchheim to show his own collection, and opened in 2001. Buchheim was an unusual figure: a painter, writer and collector, best known for the novel Das Boot about the crew of a German submarine in the Second World War — drawn from his own experience as a war correspondent aboard a U-boat, and made into a famous film in 1981. His collection centres on German Expressionism and particularly the Brücke group: Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff and Nolde. He assembled it after the war, when such work was cheap because the Nazi regime had branded it degenerate art, confiscated it and sold it off. Alongside it are ethnographic collections and folk objects gathered with a collector's passion rather than a museum's logic — African masks, Bavarian furniture, paperweights and keyrings. The building projects a wing out over the lake, and the view across Starnberg is part of the visit.
Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff — the heart of German Expressionism.
He collected it cheaply after the war because the Nazi regime had confiscated and sold it.
The building extends over the water, and the view is part of the visit.
On the shore of Lake Starnberg, Bernried