Lehmbruck Museum

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Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
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Lehmbruck Museum
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Location Duisburg, Germany
Coordinates 51°25′49.01″N6°45′58.00″E / 51.4302806°N 6.7661111°E / 51.4302806; 6.7661111
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Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia

The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany.

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Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection. However, the museum has a substantial number of works by other 20th-century sculptors, including Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Ludwig Kasper, Hermann Blumenthal, Alexander Archipenko, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Rodtschenko, Laszlo Péri, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. This is complemented by a considerable number of paintings by 19th- and 20th-century German artists. The museum circulates its substantial collection by re-installing works on an annual basis.

Selected collection highlights

Architecture

The museum complex in Duisburg’s Kantpark is a post-war modernist ensemble designed by the sculptor’s son, architect Manfred Lehmbruck. Built in two stages: the first one between 1956 and 1964. The original structure combines a low, earthbound concrete wing devoted to Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s sculptures with a large, light-filled glass hall used for the wider collection and temporary exhibitions. [1] [2] In a second stage a further annex for temporary exhibitions was added again by Lehmbruck between 1983 and 1987, completing a group of three interconnected buildings now regarded as a significant example of German post-war museum architecture. [3]

Manfred Lehmbruck’s museum architecture, including the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum and the Reuchlinhaus in Pforzheim, was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1968 exhibition Architecture of Museums, curated by Ludwig Glaeser, which contributed to the international recognition of his work. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum". Baukunst NRW. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg". RuhrKunstMuseen. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  3. ↑ https://bauhauskooperation.com/reisen/orte/ortsdetailseite/ort-93
  4. ↑ "Architecture of museums : [exhibition], September 24-November 11, 1968" (PDF). New York: Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
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