Brücke Museum

Opened in 1967, it features around 400 paintings and sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolours and prints by members of Die Brücke, the movement founded in 1905 in Dresden.

[1] In 2006, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Berlin Street Scene (1913) that had been hanging in the Brücke Museum since 1980 was returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who owned it before World War II.

[2] In 2024, the museum reached a settlement with the heirs of Jewish art dealer Victor Wallerstein who was forced to sell Kirchner's Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller Playing Chess (1913), which eventually ended up in the museum’s collection, after he fled Nazi Germany.

[3] Also in 2024, the Brücke Museum returned Max Pechstein's drawing Two Female Dancers (1910) to the heirs of German economist Hans Heymann who had initially filed their claim in 2016.

[5] The museum is located in an idyllic natural setting in Dahlem, not far from the former studio of the sculptor Arno Breker.