11 Facts About Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Wilhelm Lehmbruck was able to study sculpture arts at the School of Applied Arts in Dusseldorf by a stipend from the municipal authorities.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck trained at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf and is associated with the Dusseldorf school of painting from 1901 to 1906.

On leaving the academy Lehmbruck worked as an independent artist in Dusseldorf.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck exhibited for the first time at the Deutsche Kunstausstellung, in Cologne in 1906.

In 1912, Wilhelm Lehmbruck exhibited in the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, with Egon Schiele.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck contributed to an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck frequented the Cafe du Dome, where he met sculptors such as Modigliani, Brancusi, and Archipenko.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck suffered from severe depression and fled the war by going to Zurich at the end of 1916.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck was elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in early 1919.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck's works, including female nudes, are marked by a sense of melancholy and an elongation of form common to Gothic architecture.

The museum, named after Wilhelm Lehmbruck, was originally designed by his son, Manfred Lehmbruck.