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Lehmbruck
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noun
Wilhelm 1881–1919, German sculptor.
Lehmbruck
/ ˈleːmbrʊk /
noun
Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1881–1919, German sculptor and graphic artist
Example Sentences
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is being gifted its first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet, in addition to four works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfred Sisley, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Maurice Brazil Prendergast.
Sybille Kastner, who runs educational programs at the Lehmbruck Museum here in Duisberg and is a pioneer in programs for people with dementia, gently brought the group together.
Ms. Kastner, the Lehmbruck Museum’s outreach coordinator, first developed her program in Duisburg, a former industrial hub in northwestern Germany, in 2006, after a colleague’s mother was told she had dementia.
A life-size figure in white plaster crawls along the floor, like a drunken cross between a German Expressionist symbol of existential loneliness by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and a sentimental Pop memorial to American banality by George Segal.
In addition to prints, there are illustrated books and periodicals and political posters, as well as occasional paintings and sculptures that keep you from wearing yourself out looking at things small and framed, among them Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s wondrously sensitive figures, in cast stone, and Kirchner’s study in adolescent tension, “Standing Girl, Caryatid” from 1909-10, a carved-wood piece that the Modern acquired, with the Neue Galerie, just five years ago.
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