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Barlach takes a cure in Bad Kissingen because of heart trouble. He writes down his autobiography A Self-told Life. Barlach begins the play The Count of Ratzeburg, which he works on until 1932.
German sculptor, printmaker, and writer, a major figure of Expressionism. Until he reached his thirties Barlach was as much a ceramicist as a sculptor, working in a fairly derivative Art Nouveau style, but a turning point in his career came in 1906, when he visited Russia.
German sculptor Ernst Barlach was an outstanding sculptor of the expressionist movement (a movement in which the artist’s personal emotions are presented through distortion and exaggeration). He was also a distinguished playwright whose most notable dramas, Der tote Tag (1912; The Dead Day) and Der Findling (1922; The Foundling), combine ...
Even in the Weimar Republic, the work of the influential expressionist Ernst Barlach was subject to intense attack from right-wingers as “cultural bolshevism.” His memorial in Magdeburg cathedral and the Hamburg war memorial particularly enraged nationalist circles, and were destroyed after 1933.
The sculptor, graphic artist and writer Ernst Barlach is one of the most famous artists of German Expressionism. The rapid progress and political changes of the 19th and early 20th centuries spelled a breathless adaptation to ever-changing living conditions.
Biography. Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the ...
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Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war.
