Doris with Ruff Collar

In June 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, his friend Fritz Bleyl and their colleagues at the Technische Hochschule, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt, established Die Brücke (The Bridge), Germany’s first modern group of artists, in Dresden. This association was a very explicit response to the imperious need these young artists felt to “cross over to the other side” in search of novelty. “What we had to lea…