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Wilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor.

✵ 4. January 1881 – 25. March 1919
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck Quotes

“Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.”

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

As quoted in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 64

Nature

“Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.”

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

As quoted in The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1972) by Reinhold Heller

Art , Animals

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