Cowing Rooster I

Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)

1956. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 56,5 cm. On the plinth, the artist's signet, numbered copy 4/8, foundry mark GUSS BARTH BERLIN. The large crowing rooster I is one of six rare lifetime casts (planned until August 8) of the motif. The plaster model was revised by Marcks in the same year for the crowing rooster II. He masterfully characterized the crowing rooster in an upright prowd pose, with an open beak and distinctive comb, the plumage 'sketched'ä with a few graphic lines. - Literature: Catalogue raisonné Rudloff 659 - 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. Rudloff, Martina. Gerhard Marcks. Das plastische Werk. Bremen, 1977