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Wilhelm Lehmbruck    (German, 1881-1919)

 Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Kleine Sinnende (Sculptures) h: 50.8 cm / h: 20 in
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Kleine Sinnende 1911
 
  

Biography
1881 Born:Meiderich, Germany
1895 he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, Germany
1901 - 1906 Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master of Karl Janssen
1906 Lehmbruck joins Düsseldorfer Artists Association and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
1910 - 1914 he lived in Paris, where he met Modigliani, Brancusi, and Archipenko
1914 - 1918 served as a paramedic at a military hospital in Berlin
1919 Together with Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Lovis Corinth and others he is a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts Board
Died: Berlin, Germany
1937 The Nazis defame Lehmbruck as a "degenerate artist" and seized 116 of its works from German museums. (lw) (lw)
The Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Tate Gallery (London, England), the Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany) and the Lehmbruck Museum (Duisberg, Germany) are among the public collections holding sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Exhibitions
1993 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1988 Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Ruckblickendende von 1914, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany
1961 Kunstverein and Kuiratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt, Germany
1957 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1881–1919, Tate Britain, London, England
German Art of the Twentieth Century, City Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
1956 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Overbeck- Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany
1949 Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
1948 Kunstgebaude, Tubingen, Germany
1939 Lehbruck, Marie Marriman Gallery, New York
1920 Exhibition Hodler-Fiori-Lehmbruck-Haller-Hubacher-Morgenthaler, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
1919 Exhibition Hodler-Fiori-Lehmbruck-Haller-Hubacher-Morgenthaler, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
1917 Exhibition Hodler-Lehmbruck-Stoecklin, Kunsthalle, Basel
1916 Collective Exhibition of Works by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
1914 Exhibition of the Work of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Galerie Levesque, Paris
1913 Participation in the Armory Show in New York, Chicago and Boston, where he worked with his sculpture "The kneeling" is represented
1911 - 1912 'Salon des Indepéndents'
'Sonderbund-Exhibition' in Cologne, Germany
1907 the exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Grand Palais
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