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The work by the German sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) was influenced by Expressionism, thus seeking to express emotional experience rather than physical reality. His female nudes often only show a fragment of the female body, such as the torso here. Later Lehmbruck created more elongated figures, marked by a sense of melancholy. His close friend, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, incorporated his sculpture Torso of a Walking Woman, into the modernist design of Villa Tugendhat in Brno (1928-30), the Czech Republic.

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Object Number: N5920

Collection: Fine Art

Object Name: sculpture

Title: Small Female Torso

Artist: LEHMBRUCK, Wilhelm

Description: a cast sculpture, showing: a three-quarter length female figure; Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) was an important influence on Giacometti; Lehmbruck himself was influenced by Rodin and this female figure shows just a fragment of the body, like many carved fragments by Rodin; after Lehmbruck's early death, many of his sculptures were recast in bronze, and there are three such casts known to have been taken from this work

On Display at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Winterstoke (Front) Hall

Date of Production: 1910-1911

Associated Date: 1910-1911

Credit Line: Purchased with the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund (now The Art Fund), 1959.

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N5920

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Small Female Torso

N5920

The Female Nude

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