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Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (sh) and sophister (iou)


Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (sh)




born Jan. 4, 1881, Meiderich, Ger.
died March 25, 1919, Berlin

German sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

His youthful work was academically realistic, but he grew to admire the works of Auguste Rodin, and in 1910 he moved to Paris, where he produced paintings and lithographs as well as sculptures. He became one of the most important German Expressionist sculptors, best known for his elongated nudes, such as Kneeling Woman (1911), which suggests a resigned pessimism. He returned to Germany at the outbreak of World War I and tended wounded soldiers in a hospital. Seated Youth (1917) reveals his profound depression; he committed suicide two years later.


sophister (iou)



sophister noun. LME.
[Old French sophistre, formed as SOPHIST: see -ER2.]
A person reasoning with specious arguments. Formerly also, a sophist of ancient Greece. LME.
a. A student in his second or third year at Cambridge or (occas.) Oxford University. Now Hist. L16.
b. A similar (male or female) student at Harvard or Dartmouth University. US. M17.
c. A student in his or her third or fourth year at Trinity College, Dublin. M19.