Modern German Sculpture

Abstract

ANY ATTEMPT to make a discriminate selection of the most significant German sculptors of the twentieth century from the long list of competent candidates, must, of necessity, leave many out in the cold who deserve more generous critical hospitality. If, therefore, space restrictions limit the bulk of our observations to the work of such widely known sculptors as Lehmbruck, Barlach, Kolbe, Gerhardt Marcks, Gustav Wolff, Belling, and to a lesser degree, Fiori, Haller, Renee Sintenis and Matare, you are not to assume that we are blind to the talents of Herbert Gerbe, Emy Roeder, Edwin Scharff, Ludwig Gies, Alexander Zschokke, Milly Steger, Arno Breker, Richard Scheibe, Albiker, and the singularly able and too little known Swiss-German (living in Zurich) Hermann Hubacher, whose sculpture, though less sensuous than his better known compatriot Hermann Haller, is more ruggedly architectonic.