- Artist or Maker
- Ernst Barlach
Germany, also active France, 1870-1938 - Title
- Russian Lovers (Russisches Leibespaar)
- Date Made
- 1908
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 10 × 16 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. (25.4 × 41.28 × 32.7 cm)
- Accession Number
- 54.134.4
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
In 1906, Ernst Barlach traveled from Germany to Russia, during which his observations of laborers working in the fields had an immediate impact on his beginnings as a sculptor. Russian Lovers, inspired by this trip, exists in bronze and also in white porcelain, which suggests the vast Russian winter landscapes.
Wall label, 2021.
- Provenance
The artist (1870-1938), Güstrow, Germany. Collection of Walter Stein; given in 1954 to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
- Selected Bibliography
- Barlach, Ernst, Elisabeth Laur, and Volker G. Probst. Ernst Barlach: Das Plastische Werk. Güstrow: Ernst-Barlach-Stiftung, 2006.
