Based on sketches he made in Russia, Ernst Barlach's squarish sculptures began bearing the same expressive gestures and hunched-over, wind-blown postures of the impoverished people he encountered. Banned by the Nazis, he died in 1938; after the war his works gained full appreciation.
Many of his bronze and wood carvings are housed along with a biographical exhibition at his former studio, the Atelierhaus, 4km south of the city at Inselsee; take bus 204 or 205.
