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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...
...svelte Bronze Youth by the Belgian sculptor Georges Minne contrasts with the emotionally powerful terra cotta Head of a Woman by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and makes the essentially German qualities of the latter all the more apparent. Dainty modern Nymphenburg porcelains made from the eighteenth century molds by Franz Bustelli are placed near the delicate bronze antelope by the contemporary sculptress, Renee Sintenis and show her to be part of an old German tradition of technical excellence. Violently abstract paintings and prints along with sharply realistic ones suggest something of the chaos of postwar Germany...
...attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints with an inner fire that is typical of the expressionistic movement in Germany...
...sculpture to be shown includes outstanding figures of the boxers Schmelling and Dempsey, as well as the famous marathon runner, Paavo Nurmi. Among the noted painters whose works will be shown are: Max Beekman, Carl Hofer, Max Kaus, and Otto Muelier; the outstanding sculptor of this exhibit is Wilhelm Lehmbruck...