22 March to 9 June 2013 Advance purchase is recommended
<exchanging gazes> 5: Interior Scenes. Women and Daily Life. New
Display of the Collections From 26 February to 10 June 2013 The
German painter and engraver Erich Heckel was one of the founders
of the Expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden
and one of its most active members. He received painting and
drawing classes in Chemnitz, where he met Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
In 1904 the two of them moved to Dresden to study architecture
at the Technische Hochschule, where they coincided with Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl. After abandoning their
technical studies for painting, in June 1905 they established
Die Brücke, of which Heckel acted as the unifying force and
organiser. That year he had the chance to see original Van Gogh
paintings at Dresden’s Galerie Arnold for the first time. Both
Heckel and the rest of the group were fascinated by the art of
the Dutch painter, whose influence became evident in their works
until 1910. In the summer of