Wilhelm Lehmbruck (* January 4 1881 in Duisburg, † March 25 1919 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.
Biography
He studied sculpture arts at the academy of arts in Düsseldorf and contributed to an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. He came to move to Paris in 1910. During World War I he served as a paramedic at a military hospital in Berlin. He suffered from severe depressions and fled the war by going to Zürich. After the war he returned to Berlin. In 1919 he committed suicide distressed by his ongoing state of depression.
Sculptures
Lehmbrucks sculptures mostly concentrate on the human body and are influenced by Naturalism and Expressionism. Most of his sculptures express agony and the feeling of misery, they are usually made up as anonymous figures and there are no visible individual facial features. His works, including female nudes, have been known for an elongation common to Gothic architecture.
see also
Lehmbruck-Museum
Links
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