Kneeling Woman, Small (Kniende, klein)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
German, 1881–1919
(1910)
A drypoint print of a kneeling nude in which Lehmbruck, a sculptor working on paper, uses delicate incised lines to translate his interest in simplified, elongated volumes and introspective mood into print.
The spare, continuous contours and soft, scratchy ground make the figure read like a small, intimate sculpture—weighty and contained yet tenderly vulnerable.
It demonstrates how early twentieth-century artists bridged sculpture and printmaking to simplify the human figure and foreground inner emotion, helping to shape modernist approaches to form and pathos.
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 9 3/8 x 7 1/16" (23.8 x 17.9cm); sheet: 12 15/16 x 9 15/16" (32.8 x 25.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
397.1940
Palette
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Exhibitions
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