The Berlin Secession was founded in 1898 to counter the prevailing academic art taste and practice of the time with contemporary developments. Many well-known German artists such as Lovis Corinth, Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Max Liebermann and Leo von König were members of the Secession, which is stylistically referred to today as Berlin Impressionism. In 1907, artists from the Brücke artists' association, founded by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl, among others, exhibited at the Berlin Secession. The Buchheim Museum now traces this exchange of design elements between the Impressionists and the Expressionists of the Brücke in an exemplary manner.
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007) was above all a painter and author. His museum, which opened in 2001 on the shores of Lake Starnberg, combines art, architecture and nature through an extensive park, which also contains a number of sculptures. Buchheim's concern was to create a museum for visual experiences - instead of instruction. His main interest was in the works of the Expressionists.
