Grace kneels in Duisburg, forged in 1911 in a Parisian studio. For its creator Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the Kneeling Woman becomes a completely personal mark of creation. Affecting the art of the modern era like an impulse, with its graceful yet peculiar pose and a gesture that until that time was unique the piece has exercised an immense influence on sculpture and painting in the past hundred years. In 2011 the Kneeling Woman celebrates its anniversary, and the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg thus dedicates one of the most complex and extensive exhibitions in their history to the piece, curated by an international team managed by Marion Bornscheuer, curator of the Lehmbruck Collection and painting and graphics. mehr...

Re-opening with large Museum Festival Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, July 10, from 2.00 p.m. mehr...

The exhibition “Alberto Giacometti: Woman with chariot,” jointly produced by Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Center for International Sculpture, Duisburg, as the event organizer and Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris, as the scholarly research center, has been extended until April 25, 2010 in light of the vibrant interest shown by visitors. mehr...

To kick off the RUHR.2010 Cultural Capital Year, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Center for International Sculpture, Duisburg will present a unique exhibition on the work of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). With the support of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris as Lehmbruck Museum’s academic and organizational partner the exhibition will bring some 120 works and photographs together in Duisburg, as loans from international museums and private collectors. All of the central loans of Giacometti’s works are indispensable components of the exhibition, which focuses on the pivotal “Woman with chariot”, thus extensively highlighting the sculptor’s figurative reorientation for the first time. The exhibition showcases about thirty sculptures, just as many paintings and prints, more than forty original photographs as well as documents and archival material. mehr...