A Sitting Youth with Book
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
Lot-No. 418
Proceeds : 4.500 €
1970. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 25 cm. On the back of the base with the artist's signature and "A", foundry stamp GUSS SCHMÄKE. - Exhibitions: Düsseldorf 1971. Galerie Vömel. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 19; Köln 1974. Galerie Lempertz. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 87; Berlin 1974. Galerie Nierendorf. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 57 with ill. - Literature: Rudloff (cat.rais. no. 961) mentions 3 castings, two without number, one cast with "A", all made by Schmäke in Dusseldorf. - Provenance: Private collection Hamburg - German sculptor, graphic artist a. draughtsman, since 1907 he shared a studio with R. Scheibe, he taught at the Berlin art school before being called as teacher to the Weimar Bauhaus by W. Gropius, inspired by L. Feininger he started producing woodcuts, in 1928 he was awarded the Villa Romana prize a. became head of the art school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, expelled by the Nazis in 1933 he lived in Ahrenshoop, in 1945 he became lecturer at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule. Mus.: Köln (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Bremen, Hannover a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump a. others.
Gerhard Marcks: A Sitting Youth with Book
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
A Sitting Youth with Book
Lot-No. 418
Proceeds : 4.500 €
1970. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 25 cm. On the back of the base with the artist's signature and "A", foundry stamp GUSS SCHMÄKE. - Exhibitions: Düsseldorf 1971. Galerie Vömel. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 19; Köln 1974. Galerie Lempertz. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 87; Berlin 1974. Galerie Nierendorf. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 57 with ill. - Literature: Rudloff (cat.rais. no. 961) mentions 3 castings, two without number, one cast with "A", all made by Schmäke in Dusseldorf. - Provenance: Private collection Hamburg - German sculptor, graphic artist a. draughtsman, since 1907 he shared a studio with R. Scheibe, he taught at the Berlin art school before being called as teacher to the Weimar Bauhaus by W. Gropius, inspired by L. Feininger he started producing woodcuts, in 1928 he was awarded the Villa Romana prize a. became head of the art school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, expelled by the Nazis in 1933 he lived in Ahrenshoop, in 1945 he became lecturer at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule. Mus.: Köln (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Bremen, Hannover a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump a. others.
