[that] simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses.

later quote of Kirchner (writing in the third person); as quoted in Claire Louise Albiez, in Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus; submitted to the Division of Humanities New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida, May 2013, p. 38

about the relaxed atmosphere, not only found in die Brücke's ateliers, but also through the Brücke-artists' contact to common people in the working quarter of the city of Dresden, c. 1906-10