Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Born in 1881 in Meiderich, Germany, Wilhelm Lehmbruck began his artistic journey with a scholarship to study sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Düsseldorf. He supported himself early on by illustrating scientific publications, before continuing his training at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His early career saw him working as an independent artist and exhibiting for the first time in Cologne in 1906, where he was deeply impressed by the works of Auguste Rodin, an arti…