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Marcks, Gerhard
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art; ; 412 Words Marcks, Gerhard (1889–1981). German sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. He had a varied but patchy artistic training, beginning...
Harvard sculpture exhibit finds modernity in mythology
University Wire; Sep 6, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...include Franz von Stuck, Renee Sintenis, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Marcks, Bernard Schultze and Joseph Beuys. The majority...social context for each piece, the most powerful being Gerhard Marcks' "Prometheus Bound II" (1948), a mythological...
"Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich" at the Henry Moore Institute. (Leeds).(Arno Breker and other sculptors in exhibition)(Brief Article)
Art in America; Jul 1, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...active during those years: Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Breker, Gerhard Marcks and Georg Kolbe. With only four well-chosen figures...Museum, Berlin, Oct. 7, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002; and Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Jan. 20-Apr. 21, 2002.]
There's no such thing as Nazi art Art in the Third Reich is usually damned as the muscular propaganda of a glorious totalitarian state. But a new exhibition examines the evidence and dares to disagree, says Mark Irving
The Sunday Telegraph London; May 13, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...the context of a regime prepared to murder those deemed "unhealthy". Arie Hartog, director of the Gerhard Marcks Haus in Bremen - Marcks's work is featured in this exhibition - is blunt about the show's problematic nature, saying that...
Iowa.(art dealers and museums)(Directory)
Art in America; Jan 1, 1999; 700+ Words ...David Driesbach, Herbjorn Gausta, Mauricio Lasansky, Gerhard Marcks, Orville Running, Fridtjof Schroder, Frans Wildenhain...Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Oppenheim, Martin Puryear, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella 2362. Kenneth...
Bremen.
Germany Adventure Guide; Jan 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...the seven electors are copies--the original Gothic works are in the Focke-Museum. At the west wing is a 1951 Gerhard Marcks bronze of the Street Musicians of Bremen. The interior of the Rathaus has impressive historic rooms. Guided tours...
A City's Life In Pictures.(International Edition)(Expressionale: Masters of Expressionism and New Objectivity)
Newsweek International; Jun 23, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...are now being shown for the first time. The meditative sculptures of Joachim Karsch and the Berlin-born master Gerhard Marcks--known for his Biblical and Greek-mythology-inspired forms--reveal the underexplored classical spirit of...
Russian Jewish sculptor Moissey Kogan perished in Auschwitz, art historian says
AP Worldstream; Oct 17, 2002; 372 Words ...Nazi death camp, a curator said Wednesday. Arie Hartog, curator for a retrospective of Kogan's life work at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus museum in the northern German city of Bremen, said new research from archives in Paris had located Kogan...
Arts: If I like these works, am I really a Nazi? Early last century not every artist thought Modernism was such a great idea. Many preferred the figurative mainstream. Unfortunately so did Hitler and since then, says Tom Lubbock, the art and politics have been hard to separate
The Independent - London; May 29, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...barely tolerated by the Third Reich. Some, like Georg Kolbe, were approved of and employed. Still others, like Gerhard Marcks and Richard Scheibe, found themselves very ambiguously placed. And one became the regime's most lionised artist...
SHORT BREAKS: 48 HOURS IN Bremen Gingerbread and mulled wine at the festive markets, with added Van Gogh - it's time to enjoy the Christmas season in this historic and picturesque German city. By JIM CHOI
The Independent - London; Nov 16, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...west side of the Rathaus, the bronze statue (21) of the animals standing on each others' backs was created by Gerhard Marcks in 1953. Locals say that if you hold both front legs of the donkey and make a wish, it will come true. Buy a postcard...
New York's Met enrages a donor Museum sends Chillida sculpture to auction at Sotheby's
International Herald Tribune; Jan 14, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...paintings may go on sale this spring a Picasso and a Chaim Soutine among them and sculptures by Reuben Nakian and Gerhard Marcks. In late February, the Met will also be selling its historic assortment of plaster
Solomons bids a slow goodbye to summer; Art, entertainment, sailing adorn September.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(COVER STORY)
The Washington Times; Sep 7, 2006; 700+ Words ...varied women depicted. I love the 'Girl With Braids,' she says, pointing to a bronze statue by Berlin-born Gerhard Marcks, on loan from the Hirshhorn. She's tall, she's athletic, she's bold and strong. Then you come down the...
Das fruhe Bauhaus und Johannes Itten.
Journal of European Studies; Mar 1, 1995; ; 700+ Words ...analysed in detail by Rainer Wick (pp. 117-74)) through which every student (except those doing pottery with Gerhard Marcks and printing with Lyonel Feininger (p. 221)), had to pass. Itten was a devotee of the cult of 'Mazdaznan...
Walker show illustrates century of change in 3-D art.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); Mar 8, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...torsos by Alexander Archipenko and Aristide Maillol plus a graceful marble by Elie Nadelman and a bronze figure by Gerhard Marcks - are warehoused on one box. Allegorical bronzes on mythological themes by Renoir, Lipchitz and Paul Manship crowd...
RETROSPECTIVE OF IMPORTANT 'MONSTROUS OFFSPRING'.(Show)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); Jul 28, 1991; 700+ Words ...Belling in both the "Degenerate" and Nazi-approved exhibitions. Even favored artists - Arno Breker, Georg Kolbe, Gerhard Marcks - had some of their earlier pieces confiscated, indicating that the committee had an especially difficult time in...
Bremen Brushes Up Its Museums City Has Rejuvenated the Focke and Kunsthalle
International Herald Tribune; May 30, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...to unsuccessful asylum-seekers awaiting deportation. - ACROSS the way, another neoclassical pavilion houses the Gerhard Marcks House for 20th century sculpture. Bremen also boasts a museum dedicated entirely to the work of the painter Paula...
Pictures that escaped the Gestapo
Jerusalem Post; Oct 4, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...following day and includes paintings, drawings and sculpture by Erich Heckel, Carl Hofer, Kandinsky, Kollwitz, Gerhard Marcks and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. A group of 24 drawings and watercolors by the Austrian symbolist Alfred Kubin (1877...
WHERE ART IS BREWING VISUAL GEMS DIVERT EYES FROM THE SUDS SCENE IN MILWAUKEE
The Boston Globe; Oct 9, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...That was before she stared at the bronze and saw a live duck atop its head." "Bremen Town Musicians," by Gerhard Marcks, was the first of 55 pieces Bradley would purchase for her garden from 1965 to 1977, when she died. The Bradley...
CULTURE VULTURES: Welcome to Berlin's haus of form
The Independent - London; Jan 15, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...cutlery, teapots and adjustable lamps by Marianne Brandt and Wilhelm Wagenfeld; typefaces by Herbert Bayer; pots by Gerhard Marcks; and wall hangings by Gunta Stolzl. Here you can see more clearly than in any other museum modern art and design...
How Artists Led German Activists In Weimar Period
Chicago Sun-Times; Feb 27, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...With its angular forms, splintered lines and gouged surfaces, Ernst Barlach's "Death of a Child" (1919) and Gerhard Marcks' "The Head of a Dead Man" (1923) evoked the great German graphic tradition of the late Middle Ages. Such works...
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