“What we [Brücke-artists] had to remove ourselves from [the German bourgeois mores] was clear; where we were heading was certainly less clear.”

— Erich Heckel

original German: Wovon wir weg mussten, war uns klar. Wohin wir kommen würden, stand allerdings weniger fest
Quote of Heckel in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen, Andreas Gabelmann; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany 2010; as cited in Claire Louise Albiez https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272168564 (incl. translation), Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus; submitted to the Division of Humanities New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida, May 2013, p. 24

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Wovon wir weg mussten, war uns klar. Wohin wir kommen würden, stand allerdings weniger fest.

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