Die Kniende (kneeing woman), 1911

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (* January 4, 1881 in Duisburg, † March 25, 1919 in Berlin) was a German sculptor. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (452x850, 388 KB) Die Kniende (kneeing woman), Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1911 Photo by german Wiki User Spazzo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (452x850, 388 KB) Die Kniende (kneeing woman), Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1911 Photo by german Wiki User Spazzo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Duisburg is a German city in the western part of the Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet) in North Rhine-Westphalia. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Sculpture is a three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. ...

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. Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Clinical depression is a health condition of depression with mental and physical components reaching criteria generally accepted by clinicians. ... Location within Switzerland â–¶(?) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

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. Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens cromagnon (extinct) Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ... Naturalism refers to a number of different topics: Philosophical naturalism: the view that nothing exists but the world — that there are no supernatural entities. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... See also Gothic art. ...

See also

Lehmbruck-Museum

Links

• Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg

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Web gallery of 20th Century figure sculpture