Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.

Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (January 4 1881 – March 29 1919) was a German sculptor.

Quotes

• Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.
  • As quoted in The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1972) by Reinhold Heller

• Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.
  • As quoted in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 64

External links

• Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg
• Gallery of Lehmbruck's work
• Available Works and Biography Galerie Ludorff, Duesseldorf, Germany
• Artwork, exhibitions, reviews of Lehmbruck's work