Lying cat

Gerhard Marcks (Berlin 1889 - Burgbrohl 1981)

Designed in 1976 (plaster), cast during his lifetime. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 7 cm, W. 20.5 cm. Signet of the artist, numbered copy 4/10, foundry stamp GUSS BARTH RINTELN. The first pencil studies for the motif of the lying curled up cat in Marcks' work dates back to the 1920s. In 1976 he designed the present model in plaster, 10 copies were cast from bronze, the first 6 castings were made during the artist's lifetime, the copies 7/10-10/10 were cast posthumously - Literature: Cat.rais. Hartog No. 1083 - Provenance: Private property 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. Rudloff, Martina. Gerhard Marcks. Das plastische Werk. Bremen, 1977