Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Die Brücke

  • Erich Heckel: in a lunatic asylum

      Erich Heckel (1883–1970) was one of the founding members of Die Brücke (“The Bridge”), formed in Dresden in 1905 as a bohemian group of artists in rebellion against the older, established norms. In this painting, he depicts four inmates confined to a mental institution for reasons not explained. The squalid and disheveled man in…