Mutter und Kind (Mother and Child)

Mutter und Kind (Mother and Child) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Medium

drypoint

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Karl Leubsdorf

Accession Number

1979.58.4

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...

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