Badende mit Kopf auf Knie (Bather with Her Head on Her Knee)
Medium
drypoint on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.2 × 13.9 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet: 32.5 × 25.5 cm (12 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.355
About the Artist
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881–1919) was a German sculptor whose elongated, melancholic figures rank among the most moving works produced by European Expressionism. Born in Duisburg-Meiderich into a working-class family, Lehmbruck studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf and later at the Düsseldorf Academy, where he mastered the academic tradition before pushing beyond it toward a more pers...