The "Kleine Sinnende", which, along with the "Kniende" and the "Gestürzte", is one of Lehmbruck's best-known sculptures. It was Lehmbruck's first sculpture created under the new artistic influences after his relocation to Paris in 1910, where Lehmbruck would attain his own style. Initially still carefully exploring space, the curved lines of Art Nouveau already reveal later expressionist expressiveness. In its primary understanding, his sculpture is characterized by a physicality that lives from the statuary volume. Shortly after his move to Paris and the creation of the "Kleine Sinnende" Lehmbruck also showed works at the avant-garde Salon d'Automne. He sent works to exhibitions in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf, as well as to the first New York Armory Show. In 1914, Galerie Paul Levesque in Paris dedicated a first solo exhibition to the promising young artist. Influenced by, on the one hand, Rodin's vitalism, and, on the other hand, by Maillol's formally reduced and condensed oeuvre, Lehmbruck attained his own formal language, at the center of which we fimd the human body. From then on, pursuing a certain typification of human physiognomy and anatomy, Lehmbruck not only reduced the human body to a mere formal device, but made it a soulful carrier of expression that always stands for the human individual and its state of mind. [KT]