This year's Moritzburg Summer of Culture (June 14 to August 31) celebrates the 120th anniversary of the founding of "Die Brücke" with a small retrospective of the association's work in Moritzburg. Visitors can indulge in art at the original location, where the members of the famous Dresden artists' group worked and relaxed regularly from 1905 to 1911, as announced by Kulturlandschaft Moritzburg GmbH.
The program at the Red House includes workshops, an exhibition, a reading, but also music or a large table at the end. Inspired by a woodcut with writing by the Brücke artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), textures can be practiced and his letters explored. In addition, nude drawing can be practised with charcoal on paper or the clothed human figure can be painted in the Moritzburg pond landscape - in the open air by the water in pastel, watercolor or tempera.
In the idyllic landscape just outside Dresden, the expressionists Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein were able to let off steam artistically, unencumbered by the constraints of civilization. "The Red Bathhouse" or "Three Bathers at the Pond" by Pechstein bear witness to these sojourns - a replica of their bathhouse, built around 1900, has served as a summer studio since 2013.
