Tilla Durieux IV
Ernst Barlach
1912
Medium
Porzellan
Dimensions
45 × 39 × 26 cm
Classification
Büste
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
2070
About the Artist
Ernst Barlach · 1870–1938
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...