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65. DIE 'BRÜCKE',
21 February - 25 April 1993

German Expressionism from the early 20th century was the theme for the exhibition shown in the spring of 1993. It belonged to a series of modern art exhibitions in the Sara Hildén Art Museum.

The exhibition comprised 244 works of art, including watercolours, drawings and graphic art. Artists included the most central figures of Die Brücke group, namely, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Max Pechstein, Cuno Amiet, Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller. The works were from 1905-17.

The exhibition was also the 25th anniversary exhibition of Berlin's Die Brücke Museum in the spring of 1992. With a few exceptions, the works were on loan from the collections of Die Brücke Museum, and many of them were on display for the first time.

Expressionism emphasized immediate, intensive emotion and expression. It wanted to break free from the conventions of classical art. In this respect, the manner of expression represented by Expressionism and Die Brücke group in particular can be considered to be one of the central starting points of 20th-century Modernism. These characteristics are especially emphasized in the drawings and graphic works of Die Brücke group. Artists in the group also influenced the development of woodcut art: it became a new, important form of graphic art where the traditional narrative qualities of the picture gave way to the manner of expression.

The exhibition also showed that many of the features of Finnish Modernism that have been regarded as "national" have been influenced by German Expressionism and especially the art of Die Brücke group.

The exhibition covered the entire upper floor of the museum. A small exhibition of Akseli Gallen-Kallela's work was presented on Level A on the lower floor. Some of the main works from the museum's own collection were displayed on Levels B and C on the lower floor.

Catalogue:
Die 'Brücke'
1993, 459 pages (Text in German)
Brücke-Museum, Berlin
ISBN 3-7757-0358-6

Die 'Brücke' (Text in Finnish)
1993, 49 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum
Price FIM 100

Brücke's Bridge to Finland 1993, 20 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 54
ISBN 952-9652-09-07
ISSN 0357-3001
Not on sale

A total of 11,091 visitors attended the exhibition.