The Poetics of the Curve
Wilhelm Lehmbruck as an Illustrator and Painter

The exhibition provides insight into Wilhelm Lehmbruck's graphic and painterly oeuvre. With precise strokes and experimental colouring, he uses a wide
variety of materials – from pencil and chalk to oil and drypoint. Sometimes with delicate hints, sometimes with powerful contours, he captures humans and animals as sentient beings.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Self-Portrait, 1902

There is a special focus on Lehmbruck's early works, which already reveal the formal sensitivity and emotional depth that would characterise his later work. His depictions condense pain, melancholy and quiet presence into timeless images.