Mädchenkopf, sich umwendend (Head of a Girl Looking Over her Shoulder)
About this artwork
This head derives from a life-size sculpture of a limbless female figure looking over her left shoulder. Adopting a practice popularised by Rodin, Lehmbruck made several variants of the component parts, casting the head alone in terracotta, bronze and cement. This terracotta cast is probably posthumous and is thought to have been made by the Lehmbruck family in the 1930s. The concern with calm, classical values shows the influence of the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. Although he was German, Lehmbruck lived in Paris for a number of years and his work was more influenced by French sculpture than German art.
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artist:Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881 - 1919) German
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title:Mädchenkopf, sich umwendend (Head of a Girl Looking Over her Shoulder)
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date created:1913 - 1914 (posthumous cast)
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materials:Terracotta
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measurements:39.50 x 27.00 x 18.50 cm
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credit line:Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: purchased 1993
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accession number:GMA 3731
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Born in Duisburg in Germany, Lehmbruck studied in nearby Düsseldorf from 1895 to 1907. His early work was influenced by Rodin, but his mature work owes more to Aristide Maillol. Lehmbruck lived in Paris from 1911 until 1914 when, owing to the outbreak of war, he had to return to Germany. He worked...