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Independent 20th Century 2026

INDEPENDENT 20TH CENTURY 2026

Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art 24–27 September 2026 New York
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Die Brücke – founded in Dresden in 1905 by young architecture students – ranks among the most important movements of the German avant-garde. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, later joined by Hermann Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde, sought to break with academic art and the bourgeois constraints of their time. In search of new modes of expression – immediate, subjective, charged with emotional intensity – they experimented with colour, form and surface as well as with a range of techniques, becoming a driving force of German Expressionism. Even after the group disbanded in 1913 and each artist went their own way, this shared sensibility endured: art understood as the unmediated expression of feeling.

At the centre of our presentation at Independent 20th Century is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Totentanz der Mary Wigman (1926/1928), one of the major works of his Davos years: the painting finds a compelling pictorial equivalent for dance, translating movement into colour. Kirchner was fascinated by Mary Wigman, one of the foremost pioneers of modern expressionist dance in Germany. Across the boundaries of their respective disciplines, both pursued the same question: How does existential feeling become movement – and movement, form?

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Selected Works

Bildnis einer jungen Frau Portrait of a Young Woman by Hermann Max Pechstein contemporary artwork painting
Hermann Max Pechstein Bildnis einer jungen Frau (Portrait of a Young Woman), ca. 1918 Oil on canvas
54.7 x 51.3 cm
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Blaues Kleid Blue Dress by Erich Heckel contemporary artwork print
Erich Heckel Blaues Kleid (Blue Dress), 1912 Lithograph in black, the other colors printed in the manner of a monotype on chamois, glossy paper.
33 x 43.5 cm
Dimensions variable
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Franzi auf der Schaukel Franzi on the swing by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork drawing
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Fränzi auf der Schaukel (Fränzi on the swing), 1910 Charcoal on paper
43 x 33 cm
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im Harem In the Harem by Hermann Max Pechstein contemporary artwork print
Hermann Max Pechstein im Harem (In the Harem), 1909 Lithograph in colors (black, ochre, blue and olive-green)
38.1 x 49.2 cm
Dimensions variable
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Mannerbildnis Mannliches Bildnis Mannerkopf Mann im Gebet Portrait of a Man Male Portrait Head of a Man Man in Prayer by Erich Heckel contemporary artwork print
Erich Heckel Männerbildnis (Männliches Bildnis / Männerkopf / Mann im Gebet) (Portrait of a Man [Male Portrait / Head of a Man / Man in Prayer]), 1919 Color woodcut in blue, black, ochre and green
46.2 x 32.6 cm
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Murmel spielende Knaben Boys playing Marbles by Hermann Max Pechstein contemporary artwork works on paper
Hermann Max Pechstein Murmel spielende Knaben (Boys playing Marbles), c. 1910 Gouache, watercolour and ink over pencil on lightweight, chamois-coloured paper
28.2 x 22.2 cm
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Phantasie Drei Kopfe Fantasy Three Heads by Emil Nolde contemporary artwork works on paper
Emil Nolde Phantasie (Drei Köpfe) (Fantasy [Three Heads]), 1931–1935 Watercolour, crayon and ink on Japan paper
41 x 30.5 cm
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Sudseekopf South Sea Head by Emil Nolde contemporary artwork works on paper
Emil Nolde Südseekopf (South Sea Head), 1913/14 Watercolour on thin Japan paper
50.2 x 35.7 cm
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Tanz in der Alp - Tanz der Bauern im Haus in den Larchen Dance on the Alp - Peasants Dancing in the House among the Larches by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork print
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Tanz in der Alp - Tanz der Bauern im Haus in den Lärchen (Dance on the Alp - Peasants Dancing in the 'House among the Larches'), 1920 Lithograph on yellow paper
59 x 50.5 cm
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Totentanz der Mary Wigman by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork drawing
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Totentanz der Mary Wigman, 1926 Black chalk on paper
37 x 47.5 cm
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Totentanz der Mary Wigman by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork drawing
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Totentanz der Mary Wigman, 1926 Black, red and green chalk on paper
47 x 37 cm
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Totentanz der Mary Wigman by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork drawing
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Totentanz der Mary Wigman, 1926 Black chalk on paper
37 x 47.5 cm
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Totentanz der Mary Wigman by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork drawing
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Totentanz der Mary Wigman, 1926 Black, red and green chalk on paper
47 x 37 cm
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Totentanz der Mary Wigman Mary Wigmans Danse Macabre by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artwork painting
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Totentanz der Mary Wigman (Mary Wigman's Danse Macabre), 1926/28 Oil on canvas
110 x 149 cm
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Weisses Madchen White Girl by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff contemporary artwork print
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Weisses Mädchen (White Girl), 1911 Chalk lithograph
40 x 34 cm
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Artists Exhibiting

Erich Heckel contemporary artist
Erich Heckel 1883-1970 Follow +
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner contemporary artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938 Follow +
Emil Nolde contemporary artist
Emil Nolde 1867-1956 Follow +
Hermann Max Pechstein contemporary artist
Hermann Max Pechstein 1881-1955 Follow +
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff contemporary artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1884-1876 Follow +

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