(P/B) WILHELM LEHMBRUCK MUSEUM DUISBURG

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The December Uprising of 1905: At the end of 1905 twelve Duisburg citizens, well-known figures in public life, issued an 'Appeal'. To complement the Duisburg Museum Association, founded in 1902 in support of the erection of a museum building and up to this point focusing its interest on local cultural history, there were now moves to establish a separate group. In the future this was to work, together with the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus and his Folkwang Museum in Hagen and with the Union of Art Lovers in the Regions bordering the Rhine, towards achieving and funding the installation of permanent exhibitions of paintings, sculpture and in particular objects of applied art. Only a year later it was not this new group but, rather, the Duisburg Museum Association itself that was to be found establishing 'a new department of our collection' for acquisitions of contemporary art, albeit principally painting with a local connection. It was for this new department that, in 1912, the Duisburg sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck was commissioned to make a marble copy of his Standing Female Figure of 1910. 1915 Lehmbruck refused to participate in a competition for a war memorial in Duisburg, but worked on the theme in private. For three decades it was the family of the industrialist Eduard Boninger who were the principal patrons of the planned museum collection. (...) (From the publisher)