However a few German films and film-makers did achieve international recognition at this time, among them Bernhard Wicki's Oscar-nominated Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) ( 1959 ), and the actresses Hildegard Knef and Romy Schneider.

After studying art at the Dresden Academy alongside Otto Dix and George Grosz, ( although Schwitters seems to have been unaware of their work, or indeed of contemporary Dresden artists Die Brücke ), 1909 – 14, Schwitters returned to Hanover and started his artistic career as a post-impressionist.

Expressionism was a predominantly German artistic movement best exemplified by Die Brücke, and by the paintings of Emil Nolde and Ernst Kirchner in particular.

He was a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, and he was associated with German expressionist groups: Die Brücke, the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter circle and Die Blaue Vier ( The Blue Four ).

* Die Brücke

He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century.

He spent a brief time between 1906-1907 as a member of the revolutionary expressionist group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ), and as a member of the Berlin Secession in 1908-1910, but he eventually left or was expelled from both of these groups – foreshadowing of the difficulty Nolde had maintaining relationships with the organizations to which he belonged.

He was also briefly a member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke.

In 1905, a group of four German artists, led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, formed Die Brücke ( the Bridge ) in the city of Dresden.

There were a number of groups of Expressionist painters, including Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke.

Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider, named for a magazine ) was based in Munich and Die Brücke was based originally in Dresden ( although some members later relocated to Berlin ).

Die Brücke was active for a longer period than Der Blaue Reiter, which was only together for a year ( 1912 ).

He collected works by French and German Expressionist artists, from groups including Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, and Max Beckmann.

In the 20th century, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner of the Die Brücke group developed a process of producing colored woodcut prints using a single block applying different colors to the block with a brush à la poupée and then printing ( halfway between a woodcut and a monotype ).

Although linoleum as a floor covering dates to the 1860s, the linocut printing technique was used first by the artists of Die Brücke in Germany between 1905 – 13 where it had been similarly used for wallpaper printing.

* 1952 — Die Brücke ( Curator: Eberhard Hanfstaengl )

* Die Brücke

de: Die Brücke nach Terabithia

" A third major source for Janco's imagery was Expressionism, initially coming to him from both Die Brücke artists and Oskar Kokoschka, and later reactivated by his contacts at Der Sturm.

* Die Brücke von San Luis Rey: Szenen nach der Novelle von Thornton Wilder ( 1954 )

de: Die Brücke von San Luis Rey ( Roman )

* German: Die Brücke der Vögel: Roman aus einem alten China, das es nie gegeben hat ( 1986 ; OCLC )

* Formation of the Dresden Die Brücke expressionist architecture movement.

Fritz Bleyl poster for the first Die Brücke show in 1906

* Escape or Die: This form of escape performance was originated by Houdini and is the standard for top of the line escape artists.

This sound palette was pioneered by early 1980s artists ( SPK, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Krupps and Test Dept ), who relied heavily on metal percussion, generally made with pipes, tubes and other products of industrial waste.

* Parkfestival, music event taking part in a 2-year-rhythm with the participation of national and international artists like Die Prinzen, Nina Hagen, Joe Cocker, Reamon, Heather Nova, Leningrad Cowboys, Madsen, Blackmail, City and so on.

In the 1990s, German-language groups had only limited popularity, and only a few artists managed to be played on the radio, for example Rammstein, Rosenstolz or Die Prinzen.

2011 opened with more international chart entries with artists such as Belphegor, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, HammerFall, Flotsam and Jetsam, amongst other Nuclear Blast artists.

**" Die Laughing " ( by John Wagner and Alan Grant ( writers ) and Glenn Fabry and Jim Murray ( artists ), graphic novel, 1998 )

**" Die Laughing " ( by John Wagner and Alan Grant ( writers ) and Glenn Fabry and Jim Murray ( artists ), graphic novel, 1998 )

Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with " Blowing Away ", " Wedding Bell Blues ", " Stoned Soul Picnic ", " Sweet Blindness ", " Save The Country " and " Black Patch "; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul & Mary with " And When I Die "; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with " Eli's Coming "; and Streisand with " Stoney End ", " Time and Love ", and " Hands off the Man ( Flim Flam Man )".

" Event artists include Paul Barker, Chris Connelly, Jared Louche, Martin Atkins, Steven Seibold, Jim Marcus, Jason Novak, and Eric Powell to perform selections by Revco / Revolting Cocks, Chemlab, 16volt, Acumen Nation, Damage Manual, Hate Dept, The Clay People, and Go Fight !/ Die Warzau ; additional artists to perform Czar, Cyanotic, i: Scintilla, and The Final Cut ; with DJ sets by Zoltar, a former Q101 Chicago and WXRT Chicago radio host, and current host of the satellite radio show Subterranean.

Although there were German hip-hop artists prior to them ( such as Advanced Chemistry from Heidelberg ) it was Die Fantastischen Vier who registered the first chart hit with their 1992 single " Die da?!

Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905, after which the Brücke Museum in Berlin was named.

Mýa and Madonna were also, at the time, the only two artists to perform a Bond song and act in their respective Bond projects: Mýa plays NSA Agent Mýa Starling in Everything or Nothing while Madonna plays fencing coach Verity in Die Another Day.

As " artist in residence " at the Barbican Hall, London, Quasthoff invited some of his favourite fellow artists in a series under the title " Die Stimme "-The Voice ( also the name of his autobiography ) which marks his 50th birthday year.

In addition, Ducks Deluxe, She Trinity, Beatsteaks, Viper, Bryan Adams, John Cougar Mellencamp, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Mike Ness, Waylon Jennings, Gary Allan, Green Day, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Ska-P, The Jolly Boys, Grateful Dead, Stray Cats, Mary's Danish, Claude François, Mano Negra, the Big Dirty Band, Lolita No. 18, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Attaque 77, Die Toten Hosen, Status Quo, Nanci Griffith, La Vida Bohème, Anti-Flag, Chumbawamba, Tsuyoshi Kawakami and His Moodmakers, The Airborne Toxic Event and numerous other artists have covered this song live or in studio.

Don worked on several albums with solo artists and was a session musician on the 1978 Black Sabbath album Never Say Die!

" Helped by the positive press and Star Song's recent distribution deal with Word Records, the album quickly surpassed the sales of Never Say Die, jumping to sixth on the Billboard inspirational chart within three months and trailing only albums by pop and traditional Christian artists such as Amy Grant, Sandi Patti and the Imperials.

With its followup album Die sieben Wunder der Welt ( The Seven Wonders of the World ) in 1983, Karat drifted toward more emotionally stirring tunes like " Mich zwingt keiner auf die Knie " (" No one Forces Me to my Knee ").