5/19/2023 0 Comments Goethe affinities![]() ![]() It considers the ideologies associated with each of the principal media - bronze, stone, wood, plaster - and re-examines the extent to which the 'truth to materials' claim was followed by sculptors in their actual works. This paper considers the role which material played in the production and reception of German Expressionist sculpture. ![]() ![]() The majority of sculptures continued to be made in the conventional materials of bronze and stone, with some cast in the modern medium of artificial stone. However, these wooden sculptures formed only a relatively small proportion of the sculptural output in Germany during the years 1910 to 1930. These roughly-hewn wooden figurines reimagined the traditional material of wood, associated in Germany with the limewood sculptors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as indices of primitivist yearnings for a non-classicist, pre-academic 'authenticity' of sculptural expression. ![]() In 1983, Stephanie Barron's seminal exhibition on German Expressionist Sculpture privileged the wooden sculpture of painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel as epitomes of the Expressionist aesthetic. ![]()
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