Die Brücke started in Dresden around 1905 as a German expressionist group that, like the French Fauves, expressed emotions through intense colors, crude brushwork and interests in primitivist art. The founders were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Beyl, later joined by Emil Nolde and others. I see a link with the Fauves and cannot distinguish from other highly colored German Expressionists, like Der Blaue Reiter, see below.
The Zurich Kunsthaus sign says: "The Brücke artists strove to reproduce directly and authentically what they had seen and experienced. Their works are characterized by generally crude and spontaneous application of pure, vivid colors, couples with jagged forms. Crucially, the development of their expressionist style was shaped by close study of objects from non-European cultures that were displayed in ethnology museums: in them, they identified an archaic, unspoiled, pre-civilization quality that they set out to affirm in their quest for the primitive and a life spent in harmony with nature. The fact that these collections largely consisted of items plundered from colonies was not an issue for society at the time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke
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