Macbeth IV
Medium
Drypoint; first state of two
Dimensions
plate: 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (39.5 x 29.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
Accession Number
23.100.1
Tags
MenShakespeareMacbeth
About the Artist
Wilhelm Lehmbruck|William Shakespeare
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...