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Aug 8, 2020 · Decried by the Nazis as "degenerate," the sculptor, graphic artist and man of letters is considered one of the most important German expressionists. Image: picture-alliance/akg-images....
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.
Aug 8, 2020 · Advertisement. Artist Ernst Barlach, 150 years after his birth. Decried by the Nazis as "degenerate," the sculptor, graphic artist and man of letters is considered one of the most important...
Born near Hamburg, Barlach was a sculptor, printmaker and writer. From around 1896, he worked in an art nouveau style. However, after visiting his brother in Russia in 1906, he was struck by the solid and sturdy figures of the Russian peasants. Inspired by this and by medieval German carving, Barlach developed his own figure style.
May 14, 2020 · The Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg holds the most substantial collection of Barlach’s wood sculptures in the world. To mark this year’s anniversary it commissioned the photographer Andreas Weiss to take images of most of the existing wood sculptures starting with the holdings of the Barlach Haus.
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.
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Barlach’s path to expressionism led through the academic traditions of the 19th century and the creative ideas of naturalism, symbolism and art nouveau. In 1906 a journey to Russia gave him the decisive motivation for a radical simplification and monumentalisation of his visual imagery.