movement fritz bleyl
___MASK36___ includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s , and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era . The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation . Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art . A tendency away from the narrative , which was characteristic for the traditional arts , toward abstraction is characteristic of much ___MASK36___ . More recent artistic production is often called ___MASK18___ or postmodern art . Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ( 6 May 1880  15 June 1938 ) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or " The Bridge ", a key group leading to the foundation of ___MASK13___ in 20th - century art . He volunteered for army service in the First World War , but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged . In 1933 , his work was branded as " degenerate " by the Nazis and in 1937 , over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed . In 1938 , he committed suicide by gunshot . Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 , after which the Brücke Museum in Berlin was named . Founding members were Fritz Bleyl , Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt - Rottluff . Later members were Emil Nolde , Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller . The seminal group had a major impact on the evolution of ___MASK36___ in the 20th century and the creation of ___MASK13___ . ___MASK13___ was a modernist movement , initially in poetry and painting , originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century . Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective , distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas . Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality . Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl , known as Fritz Bleyl ( 8 October 1880 -- 19 August 1966 ) , was a German artist of the Expressionist school , and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ( `` The Bridge '' ) . He designed graphics for the group including , for their first show , a poster , which was banned by the police . He left the group after only two years , when he married , to look after his family , and did not exhibit publicly thereafter .