Word: lehmbruck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion of Ulm's deputy director, Dr. Wilhelm Lehmbruck, "It is this remoteness, this kind of alienation, that makes him seem attractive today...
...hands of modern sculptors from Rodin to Lehmbruck, man's anatomy has shrunk as if he were being returned to dust. But no one has reduced the image of man to such near nothingness as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti. During the 1940s, his sculptures shrank so much that he carried the results of four years' work in six matchboxes in his pocket; and since then, try as he may, his lovely, attenuated figures still look like fugitives from a cane gang. Inevitably, Giacometti's search for essentials gave his work a lean and existential look, leading Jean...
...catalogue of the "degenerate art'' show put on by Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1937 has, with predictable irony, become a handy checklist of great modern German artists-Lehmbruck, Barlach, Kirchner, Grosz, Nolde, Ernst. But one artist, Otto Dix, who was considered so crass that no fewer than 16 of his works were hung in the show, is only now getting recognition commensurate with that backhanded accolade. Berlin and Darmstadt have seen comprehensive Dix exhibitions in the past couple of years, and his current show in Stuttgart is drawing praise from critics all over Germany...
...Spirit." He arrived in Cologne as the show was being dismantled, but he saw enough to inspire him. "Van Gogh's work enthralled me." he wrote, "I met the sculptor Lehmbruck and secured some of his sculptures, also works by Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi...
Quick to admit that his collection is far from comprehensive, Billy plans to augment it with new purchases. He has his eye on works by Picasso, Arp, Moore, Lehmbruck and Brancusi. Last week he announced another collector's gift of Chaim Gross's The Performers, said he would "adore to get more contributions." He concedes that he will miss his host of silent, carved and cast friends. But at 60, Billy is thinking of posterity and has no regrets. Says he: "What was I going to do with these two-ton knickknacks-leave them to my sister Polly...