People of Russia

Ernst Barlach (02/01/1870 – 10/24/1938), German sculptor, graphic artist and writer. He studied at the Art and Industrial School in Hamburg (1888-1891), in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1891) and Paris (1895-1896). In 1906, he visited Russia. From 1910 he worked in Gyustrove. In the work of Barlach plastic language of German Gothic reconceived in a spirit of expressionism. In sculpture, Barlach strong internal movement that penetrated the squat generalized form of the human body, is in sharp contrast to the reticence of a static arrangement, purely plastic means of creating great emotional stress. He worked mainly in wood. Humanist, imbued with a passionate rejection of militarism, art Barlach undergone persecution in Nazi Germany. Barlach was forbidden to work, his works were confiscated or destroyed. Works: monuments to the fallen – the cathedrals of Gyustrove (now in Antoniterkirhe in Cologne, bronze, 1927) and Magdeburg (Wood, 1929), with illustrations to his own play "Poor Cousin" (lithograph, 1919), for "Faust" IV Goethe (woodcut, 1923). Cit.: Das dichterische Werk, Bd 1-3, Munch., 1956 – 59. Lit.: Schmidt Yu Ernst Barlach, "Creativity", 1968, № 7; Sar1s C. D., Ernst Barlach, 6 Aufl., V., [19541; Fesliter P., Ernst Barlach, Gutersloh, 1957; Fuhmann F ., Ernst Barlach …, Rostock, 1964.