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Lehmbruck, Wilhelm(encyclopedia)

Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (sh) and echography (medicine)


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.


echography (medicine)


echography
<investigation> Ultrasonography, the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic aid. Ultrasound waves are directed at the tissues and a record is made, as on an oscilloscope, of the waves reflected back through the tissues, which indicate interfaces of different acoustic densities and thus differentiate between solid and cystic structures.