Wilhelm Lehmbruck [SEP] place of birth
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Wilhelm Lehmbruck (4 January 188125 March 1919) was a German sculptor.
Biography.
Born in Duisburg, he was the fourth of eight children born to the miner Wilhelm Lehmbruck and his wife Margaretha. He was able to study sculpture arts at the School of Applied Arts in Düsseldorf by a stipend from the municipal authorities. In 1899 he began to make a living by doing illustrations for scientific publications. He trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting from 1901 to 1906
Art (Washington D.C.), Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany), and the Tate Gallery (London, England) are among the public collections holding works by Wilhelm Lehmbruck. One of his sculptures can be seen in the Villa Tugendhat.
See also.
Lehmbruck-Museum
Further reading.
- August Hoff. "Wilhelm Lehmbruck", Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1933 (German).
- Werner Hofmann, "Wilhelm Lehmbruck." London: Zwemmer 1958
- August Hoff, "Wilhelm