#ernstbarlach

To the Moon 2: Lunar Phantom, Ernst Barlach, 1924, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Annie S. Coburn Fund Size: image: 13.7 x 21.3 cm (5 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)

Singing Girls (Singende Mädchen), Ernst Barlach, (1924), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Samuel A. Berger Size: composition: 14 x 10 3/4" (35.6 x 27.3 cm); sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 7/8" (53.1 x 37.8 cm) Medium: Lithograph

The Troll (Der Alb), Ernst Barlach, 1912, Brooklyn Museum: European Art

Size: Image: 8 x 10 13/16 in. (20.3 x 27.5 cm) Sheet: 20 13/16 x 26 1/16 in. (52.9 x 66.2 cm) Medium: Lithograph on wove buff paper

The Avenger, Ernst Barlach, modeled 1914, cast 1923, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

figure German Expressionists believed communication of the emotions to be the primary purpose of art and employed distortions of color, shape, surface, and space as the means to accomplish this goal. The angular form, suggested motion, and passionate gesture of The Avenger is exemplary of the Expressionist vision. Dubbed by Barlach as the "crystallized essence of War," the sculpture was in direct response to the vengefulness and devastation of World War I. Based on lithographs of 1914, the image passed through a number of stages before it was realized in bronze. While indebted to medieval wood statuary in mood and texture, Barlach's work was also a significant precursor to the development of kinetic sculpture. Size: 17 x 23 1/4 in. (43.2 x 59.1 cm) Medium: Bronze

The Invisible by Ernst Barlach, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Pen and ink, pencil and charcoal on paper

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Falling Woman (Stürzende Frau) by Ernst Barlach, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Lithograph

Gift of Mr. Charles Klee, 1963 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY