Harvard Art Museums > BR34.196: Head of a Girl Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Girl (Wilhelm Lehmbruck) , BR34.196,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/225860. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download The sculpture shows a head and shoulder portrait of a girl. The head is tilted slightly to the left and down and is crowned with short curled hair. The head rises on a long slender neck from a base of uneven width. The surface is pink in tone and mottled with areas of lighter and dark tones. Gallery Text Head of a Girl belongs to the expressionist body of work that Lehmbruck began to create in Paris around 1911, after meeting the sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Archipenko. Rejecting the conventional approach to the figure that he had perfected during his training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Lehmbruck developed a new style in which the human form was elongated, attenuated, and greatly simplified. He quickly gained fame through his participation in significant exhibitions of modern art, such as the 1912 Berlin Secession and the Armory Show in New York in 1913. Lehmbruck experimented with partial casts of full figures in a variety of materials. Head of a Girl is based on his sculpture Contemplative Woman (1913/14). Casts of this work exist in terracotta, cast stone, and tinted plaster. Identification and Creation Object Number BR34.196 People Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German (Duisburg, Germany 1881 - 1919 Berlin, Germany) Title Head of a Girl Other Titles Original Language Title: Mädchenkopf; Frauenkopf; Mädchenkopf auf schlankem Hals--Kopf der Grossen Sinnenden Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date c. 1913 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/225860 Location Location Level 1, Room 1440, Modern and Contemporary Art, Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Pink-tinted plaster, painted Dimensions 44.6 x 36 x 19.5 cm (17 9/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Dr. Wurz Collection, Stuttgart. [Graphisches Kabinett, Munich]. [Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1934. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum Purchase Accession Year 1934 Object Number BR34.196 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Dietrich Schubert, Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Catalogue raisonné der Skulpturen, 1898-1919, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms (Worms, 2001), cat. no. 67 II C 2, b/w illus. p. 271, fig. 326 Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 178 Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch (2024), pg. 4, color ill Exhibition History 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1980 - 08/31/1980 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu