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...Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...
...furniture, vestments, tapestries, stained glass and other work which completes the display. The high points of the collection are the models and photographs of the Church of St. Joseph by Boehm, a group of four gargoyles by the sculptor Hensler, chalices and patenae by Michaelis, several original pieces by Barlach, a copper crucifix by Hans Wissel, reminiscent of the crucifix at Isenheim. Equally on exhibition is Cantabrigicus Abderitus, squinting, wrinkling his simian Georgian brow, murmuring "how HORRIBLE...
Among the recent acquisitions which have been installed by Dr. C. L. Kuhn at the Germanic Museum is a large statue called "A Crippled Beggar," which represents the figure of a medieval beggar supported by crutches, and was just completed by the German sculptor Ernst Barlach...
...figure, made out of brick material and baked to resemble artificial stone, was cast twice, the duplicate being used in an outside niche on the facade of a museum in Lubeck. The piece, which was finished last winter, is Barlach's most recent work and considered his most important...