Discover sculptor, woodcarver, draftsperson Gerhard Marcks

Qualifications: sculptor, woodcarver, draftsperson, professor, academy lecturer

Nationality/school: German

Born: Berlin 1889-02-18

Deceased: Burgbrohl (Eifel) 1981-11-12/1981-11-13
12-11-1981 of 13-11-1981 (Saur 1992-)

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Scheibe, Richard

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44 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Berlijn 1908 - 1912
werkte samen met Richard Scheibe in een werkgemeenschap (volgens lemma Wikipedia)
Dornburg/Saale (Saale-Holzland-Kreis) 1920 - 1925
ca. 1920-1925 hoofd van de pottenbakkerswerkplaats van Bauhaus
Griekenland 1928
studiereis
Italië 1928
studiereis (Vollmer 1953-1962)
Frankrijk 1928
studiereis (Vollmer 1953-1962)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (deelstaat) 1933 - 1944
Niehagen in Mecklenburg; 1933 en na 1944
Rome 1935
met stipendium
Berlin-Nikolassee 1938 - 1944
in 1937 tentoonstellings- en werkverbod (Vollmer 1953-1962); Marcks' atelierhuis en een groot deel van zijn werken werden verwoest bij een bombardement in 1944.
Keulen 1950
vanaf 1950, laat atelierhuis bouwen
Zuid-Afrika 1955
reis naar Zuid- en Zuidwest-Afrika
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1963
studiereis
Mexico (land) 1963
studiereis (alle gegevens over plaatsen van werkzaamheid ontleend aan Galerie Nierendorf 2006, tenzij anders vermeld)

Teacher at academy/university: Unterrichtanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlijn)
1918
Bauhaus Schule (Weimar)
1919
Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design (Halle, Saale)
vanaf 1925 hoofd van de beeldhouwklas, in 1933 uit ambt ontheven (volgens lemma Wikipedia)
Landeskunstschule Hamburg
1946-1950 (alle gegevens over leraar aan academie ontleend aan Galerie Nierendorf 2006, tenzij anders vermeld)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Scheibe, Richard
Scheibe werkte samen en/of doceerde Marcks
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Agricola, Rudolf Alexander
Bunge, Kurt
Kock, Hans
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Agricola, Rudolf Alexander
Conrad, Ulrich
Dohna, Dagmar zu

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, nude figure, genre, mythology, Christian religious scene, bird scene, animal painting (genre), genre, equestrian painting, portrait
RKD beelddocumentatie

Medium/technique: bronze, wood, types of stone (guide term), granite, terracotta, moulding plaster, zinc
RKD beelddocumentatie
Product: woodcut, monument, bust (sculpture), relief, door

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Bauhaus

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 44 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 24 (1930), p. 73 (as: Marcks, Gerhard)
Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 3 (1956), p. 320
Arnhem 1958 , p. 26-27, nr. 179
Witt Checklist 1978
Galerie Nierendorf 2006 , p. 48
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (februari 2012) (as: Marcks, Gerhard)

M. Papenbrock, 'Moderne Denkmalplastik in der Nachkriegszeit Hans Uhlmanns Alkenrather Mahnmal (1956-1960)', Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 64 (2003), p. 295-318
tent. cat. Mühlheim am Ruhr, Kaufmann, Pankok 2008 (zie RKDlibrary)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Marcks (februari 2012)

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zie afdeling MHK voor foto's gemaakt door V.S.P. Esser van beeldhouwwerken

Project: Modern sculpture

External links: http://www.marcks.de/

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Creation date: 1992-01-18; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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