Monks Reading
1932 · Bronze
H.: 59.7 cm (23 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Ernst Barlach
1870
SculptureExpressionismArt Nouveau
Representation
None documented
36
Institutional Exhibitions
157
Works in Collection
260
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Expressionism
- • Art Nouveau
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
View all exhibitions →No image
European Drawing Between the Wars
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987–1988
No image
Sculptors' Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
No image
The Expressionist Idiom
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
No image
Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
No image
Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
About
Why this artist matters now
No biography available for Ernst Barlach yet.
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Expressionism
Medium
Sculpture
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (157)
View all 157 artworks →
Record
Images
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Oskar Kokoschka
Shared movement
Alexej von Jawlensky
Shared movement
Ewald Mataré
Shared movement
Karl Schrag
Shared movement
Marsden Hartley
Shared movement
Hugo Gellert
Shared movement
John McCracken
Also sculpture
Jeff Koons
Also sculpture
Dan Flavin
Also sculpture
Louise Nevelson
Also sculpture
Ruth Asawa
Also sculpture
Isa Genzken
Also sculpture
Record
Movements and affiliations
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
National Gallery of Art
In collection
Tate
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Record