The Couple in the Crowd

The Couple in the Crowd by Ernst Barlach

Medium

charcoal on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.6 x 34.6 cm (10 1/2 x 13 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1950.17.300

About the Artist

Ernst Barlach · 18701938

Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) was one of the most powerful German Expressionist sculptors of the early twentieth century, an artist whose work fused medieval spirituality with modern existential anguish to produce images of haunting emotional force. Born in Wedel, Holstein, Barlach studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and later at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before traveling to Paris, wh...

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