Cleveland Museum of Art

Singing Man

Ernst Barlach

Date

1928

Medium

bronze

Culture

Germany, 20th century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

One of the most celebrated sculptors of the Expressionist movement in Germany, Barlach first began exploring ways to convey inner feeling through depictions of the human body around 1906. As this singing man pulls his knee toward his body, his closed eyes and open mouth suggest deep concentration. A staunch opponent of the Nazis, Barlach was declared a “degenerate artist” and forbidden to teach or exhibit in Germany.

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