Walking Cat (Kater Schwarzmann)
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
Lot-No. 703
Proceeds : 4.400 €
1977. Bronze with goldbrown patina. Inscribed with the artist's signet on the plinth, foundry stamp 'GUSS BARTH RINTELN' on the lateral plinth rim, num. copy '10/10'. H. 17,8 cm, 27 x 6,7 cm. - 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: Walking Cat (Kater Schwarzmann)
Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)
Walking Cat (Kater Schwarzmann)
Lot-No. 703
Proceeds : 4.400 €
1977. Bronze with goldbrown patina. Inscribed with the artist's signet on the plinth, foundry stamp 'GUSS BARTH RINTELN' on the lateral plinth rim, num. copy '10/10'. H. 17,8 cm, 27 x 6,7 cm. - 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.
