The Reaper
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
Lot-No. 419
Proceeds : 4.200 €
1972. Bronze, black patinated. H. 23 cm. Numbered copy 3/X, artist signet, cast by Polzoni in Cologne. - Exhibitions: Berlin 1976. Galerie Nierendorf. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 24 - Literature: Rudloff (WVZ no. 961) mentions 7 castings, 3 of which are not numbered. - 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: The Reaper
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
The Reaper
Lot-No. 419
Proceeds : 4.200 €
1972. Bronze, black patinated. H. 23 cm. Numbered copy 3/X, artist signet, cast by Polzoni in Cologne. - Exhibitions: Berlin 1976. Galerie Nierendorf. Gerhard Marcks, cat.no. 24 - Literature: Rudloff (WVZ no. 961) mentions 7 castings, 3 of which are not numbered. - 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.
