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From Anxiety to Ecstasy

When Ernst Kirchner outlined the mission of Die Brücke, an avant-garde group of artists founded in Dresden, Germany, he did so by making a woodcut print of its philosophy to accompany a 1906 exhibition. In its brief manifesto, he declared, “Everyone who reproduces that which drives us to directness and authenticity belongs to us.” While […]

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