Cowering Woman III (Kauernde III)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
German, 1881–1919
(1914?, printed 1920)
A drypoint print in which Wilhelm Lehmbruck depicts a crouching nude hiding her face, the artist aiming to render bodily tension and inward anguish through spare, engraved lines.
You are struck by the fragile, pencil‑like etching of elongated limbs and the figure’s closed, folded posture set against a wide, empty ground that intensifies her isolation.
Working between sculpture and print, Lehmbruck distilled Expressionist concerns into simplified, elongated forms that made visible psychological vulnerability and helped shape twentieth‑century approaches to the human figure.
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 9 1/4 x 6 7/8" (23.5 x 17.5 cm); sheet: 18 1/16 x 11 5/16" (45.9 x 28.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Samuel A. Berger
Accession
382.1954
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