Past Exhibition

The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck

A man bows his bald head deeply as he rests his splayed elbows on his thighs in this freestanding plaster sculpture. The long toes of the man’s feet nearly touch, and they are angled to our right in this photograph. He sits on a low surface, also sculpted from plaster, and his long limbs create a cage around his hollowed chest. The surface of the plaster is ivory white in some areas and parchment brown in others. The piece rests on a gray pedestal against gray walls.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Seated Youth, 1917, composite tinted plaster, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1974.49.1

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    Ground Floor, Central Gallery, G-7, G-8 (4,700 sq. ft.)
A man bows his bald head deeply as he rests his splayed elbows on his thighs in this freestanding plaster sculpture. The long toes of the man’s feet nearly touch, and they are angled to our right in this photograph. He sits on a low surface, also sculpted from plaster, and his long limbs create a cage around his hollowed chest. The surface of the plaster is ivory white in some areas and parchment brown in others. The piece rests on a gray pedestal against gray walls.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Seated Youth, 1917, composite tinted plaster, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1974.49.1

Overview: 130 works were shown: 55 sculptures, including 50 from the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany, 7 paintings, 30 drawings, 34 etchings, and 4 lithographs. This was the first significant exhibition of work by Lehmbruck since the Aristide Maillol-Wilhelm Lehmbruck exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1930. It was organized by Reinhold Heller of the University of Pittsburgh, with the cooperation of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and the artist's sons, Guido and Manfred Lehmbruck.

Organization: Douglas Lewis, curator of sculpture, was the coordinator at the National Gallery. Gaillard Ravenel designed the exhibition for the National Gallery.

Attendance: 179,090

Catalog: The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, by Reinhold Heller. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1972.Other Venues:

  • University of California, Los Angeles, 09/20/1972–10/31/1972
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 11/15/1972–12/31/1972
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/31/1973–03/15/1973

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