OVER THE BRIDGE....TO GRENOBLE
Musée de Grenoble It was quite a day as there are 6 hours of travelling by TGV there and back to Grenoble. Having left very early I was at 11 in the Grenoble Museum to see «Die Brucke». «Thanks to an outstanding loan of more than 120 leading works coming from the Brücke-Museum in Berlin, and 20 years after the last such event held in Paris, the Musée de Grenoble is presenting an exhibition devoted to the Die Brücke [The Bridge] group, the first German avant-garde movement, which ushered in one of the 20th century's major art tendencies : Expressionism. Etablished in Dresden in June 1905 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, who were subsequently joined by Max Pechstein, Emile Nolde, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller, this group was defined above all by its rejection of academic art. These artists were influenced by the works of Van Gogh and Munch as much as by the primitive arts, and translated into a style involving dazzling colours an