Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919)

Büste der Knieenden (Geneigter Frauenkopf)

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Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919)
Büste der Knieenden (Geneigter Frauenkopf)
incised with the signature 'W. LEHMBRUCK' (on the right shoulder blade)
terracotta
Height: 19 1/8 in. (48.5 cm.)
Width: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm.)
Conceived in 1912-1914

Galerie Flechtheim, Dusseldorf.
Hermann Lange Krefeld, by whom acquired from the above by 1930 and thence by descent.
Private collection, Switzerland.

W. Cohen, ‘Haus Lange in Krefeld‘ in Museum der Gegenwart, vol. 1, 1930-1931, p. 160 (illustrated).
D. Schubert, Die Kunst Lehmbrucks, Dresden, 1990, p. 88 (illustrated).
M. Huth, Berliner Lebenswelten der 20er Jahre, Frankfurt am Mein, 1996, p. 29.
D. Schubert, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, catalogue raisonné der Skulpturen 1898-1919, Worms, 2001, no. 61A-1a, p. 244 (other versions illustrated).
C.Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Architekt für die Seidenindustrie, Berlin, 2011, (illustrated p. 16)

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