Word: barlach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pictures by Barlach and Lehmbruck carry on the feeling of loneliness and pain that characterize this period...
...Vanguard. To Barlach the peasants became "symbols of the human situation between Earth and Heaven." In giving the symbols form, Barlach again turned his back on Paris, chose instead to model his peasants in terms of their own traditional wood-carved figures and the Gothic sculpture of his native town. The result, far from seeming a throwback to a bygone style, rapidly placed Barlach in the vanguard of German expressionists...
...Barlach summed up his disgust with the first World War with his famed Avenger, whose headlong, sword-slashing figure was later to arouse Adolf Hitler's wrath. For a group of 16 figures commissioned for the Gothic niches of Liibeck...
Catherine's Church, Barlach sculpted The Crippled Beggar, face raised as he rests on crutches, feet barely touching the ground, in a gesture that echoes back to the works of Brueghel. Singing Man shows Barlach at his most joyous. The figure, despite the ecclesiastical appearance of his garb, could as well be yodeling as singing God's praise...
Hitler's bitter dislike of Barlach led to a rapid banning of Barlach's work. What broke Barlach's heart was the removal in 1937 of his bronze Angel from the cathedral at Giistrow, where he had lived and worked for 27 years. He died the next year, at 68. Today the Angel is suspended once again in its old place within Giistrow Cathedral, a symbol that Sculptor Barlach has returned with a message of enduring faith...