Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Dyke Opening, 1910. Oil on canvas Brücke-Museum, Berlin. © Karl Schmidt-Rottluff/Bildupphovsrätt 2024 Photo: Brücke-Museum, Berlin/Nick Ash
In this audio guide you will find in-depth knowledge of the artist group Brücke.
The texts are extracts from the exhibition catalogue. They are written by some of the foremost experts on Brücke and German Expressionism. The catalogue contains essays by Meike Hoffmann, Iris Müller-Westermann, Christiane Remm and Aya Soika.
Below you will find more information about the catalogue writers.
Dr. Meike Hoffmann is an art historian who teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she heads the “Degenerate Art” research center as well as several provenance research projects on behalf of the German federal government. Hoffmann is the author of numerous publications, including Escape into Art? The Brücke Painters in the Nazi period (with Aya Soika, 2019) and Unmastered Past? Modernism in Nazi Germany: Art, Art Trade, Curatorial Practice (with Dieter Scholz, 2020).
Iris Müller-Westermann was director for Moderna Museet Malmö until 2022 and is currently senior curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She initiated and curated the 2013 exhibition Hilma af Klint–A Pioneer of Abstraction, which toured to museums in six European countries. Müller-Westermann has a long record of highlighting women artists in retrospectives including Rosemarie Trockel, Lee Lozano, Jutta Koether, and Louise Bourgeois. Her most recent exhibition was Lotte Laserstein: A Divided Life (2023).
Christiane Remm studied art history, communication science, and psychology in Dresden. From 2003 to 2005 she was a research assistant at the Brücke-Museum in Berlin, where she has worked as a freelance researcher since 2006. Numerous exhibitions and publications on Brücke. Since 2019, she has been a research associate and collection curator at the Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung and is responsible for the artistic and documentary estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff at the Brücke-Museum. In addition, she has been documenting his artistic work for several years and is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Schmidt-Rottluff ’s paintings on behalf of the foundation.
Aya Soika is professor of art history at Bard College Berlin. She is author of the catalogue raisonné of Max Pechstein’s paintings (2011) and has written extensively on the artists of the Brücke group. Among her publications are studies on the Brücke artists during the First World War (2014) and the Third Reich (2019), as well as on Pechstein’s and Emil Nolde’s trips to the German colonies in the South Seas.
