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As we mark the 150th anniversary of Barlach's birth in 2020, the
Ernst Barlach Haus in Hamburg pays tribute to the artist with a
comprehensive overview of his wood sculptures. Starting with its
own collection, the museum elaborately documented all available
figures between Lübeck and Zurich with new photographs. This book
is the result of this monumental project. It introduces 72 of the
84 extant wood sculptures and includes many fascinating
large-format colour plates presenting the statues and their
details. Wood held particular importance for Barlach as an artistic
material: he regarded it as animate matter. Consequently, woodwork
takes centre stage in Barlach's artistic practice - a fact that is
often obscured by the large number of mostly posthumous bronze
casts of his works. Around 1907, Barlach began to explore the
centuries-old medieval art of woodcarving without any prior
training. The poor, the homeless, the struggling, invalids, beggars
and outlaws: Barlach turned his attention to those pushed to the
margins of society and paid tribute to them by placing them at the
centre of his art. This book does justice to the reductive
character of his forms, which gestures at simplification and a
transcendence of time, by highlighting Barlach's contemporary
relevance. Text in English and German.
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