" What is sculpture? 100 years + 100 heads "

Written by Ronald Aldrich Friday, 18 November 2011 22:57

DUISBURG, GERMANY - The Foundation Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Center of International Sculpture presents "What is sculpture? 100 years + 100 heads ". The century of modern sculpture, on view through January 28, 2008. Curators: Christoph Brockhaus with the complete academic team. In the public arena, sculptural media come well after painting, yet many people ask themselves: “What exactly is the difference between cast sculpture, sculpture, and object art etc.?”

This second Anniversary Collection presentation is intended to familiarize visitors with the medium of sculpture in all its facets and associations, through works of the highest possible artistic quality, and insightfully render them accessible to all the senses in a spatial context. Amongst other things, the presentation on the collection provides answers to questions on types and topics, materials and spatial references, developmental processes and references to other genres, media, dimensions, and issues of inside/outside. The focus is on rediscovering sculpture as a genre in art, characterized by the most diverse of forms and many different layers of meaning.

There is an up-to-date inventory catalog on the exhibition in the whole museum, in the sculpture park and in the town. In addition, there are plans for a flyer on “Sculpture in Duisburg” and an international sculpture symposium. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Prestel Museumguide, 128 pages, 162 colored images, edition in German or English, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2000, each at a cost of 9,90 Euro.

The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany. Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection. However, the museum has a substantial amount of works by other 20th century sculptors, including Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Ludwig Kasper, Hermann Blumenthal, Alexander Archipenko, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Rodtschenko, Laszlo Péri, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. This is complemented by a considerable number of paintings by 19th and 20th century German artists. Visit : www.lehmbruckmuseum.de/