The Bauhaus to combine art and craft. The sculptor Gerhard Marcks had a special ambition: to Him and his circle of friends, the New Museum Weimar and now dedicates a major exhibition.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Wrong nice
Naked, with a serious facial expression, a Hand on the drooping Arm to Gerhard Marcks in 1921, has worked with this gold plated boy in the wood. The wrong-standing sculpture is now privately owned, but is one of the exhibits in the Weimar exhibition “ways out of the Bauhaus, Gerhard Marcks and his circle of friends.”
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Marcks and his Adam’s
As one of the first Gerhard Marcks in 1919 was appointed to the state Bauhaus in Weimar. As a teacher of Walter Gropius founded an art school, the sculptor, was particularly active in the return to the craft. The image of an unknown photographer shows Marcks in his Studio at the Bauhaus in Dornburg. In the Background of his character, Adam (1925).
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Sound Engineer Marcks
All sorts of sound samples has draped an unknown photographer in 1919 for his image. Especially out of a head stings the vessel in the middle of the Assemblage. The Creator of the works of Gerhard Marcks. From 1920 he was head of the Bauhaus pottery workshop in Dornburg / Saale. There he met the Bauhaus artists Otto Lindig, Max Krehan, Marguerite Friedlaender, and Franz Rudolf Wildenhain.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Earthly Taurus
This handle pot was probably formed by the Marcks-a student, and Max Krehan. The decor, a cattle has been drawn by Gerhard Marcks. The vessel was built in 1922, as “Earthenware”, a low-temperature fired ceramic material.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Abstract Figure
Specialty of the painter, sculptor and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer, the position of the human figure in space. It was his constant theme, also visible in this “Abstract figure” made of Nickel-plated Bronze. The work of the artist, who was one of the circle of friends by Gerhard Marcks, was born in 1921.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Arts And Crafts
Like Schlemmer, the Marcks-friends of Otto Hagel and Marguerite Friedlander were wild grove, a supporter of a craft oriented art. The illustrated leaf on silver gelatin from 1945 shows the hand movements when Turning a vessel. The so-called “Marguerite Wildenhain papers,” written between 1930 and 1982. The exhibition in the Neues Museum in Weimar will take up to 5. November 2017.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Wrong nice
Naked, with a serious facial expression, a Hand on the drooping Arm to Gerhard Marcks in 1921, has worked with this gold plated boy in the wood. The wrong-standing sculpture is now privately owned, but is one of the exhibits in the Weimar exhibition “ways out of the Bauhaus, Gerhard Marcks and his circle of friends.”
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Marcks and his Adam’s
As one of the first Gerhard Marcks in 1919 was appointed to the state Bauhaus in Weimar. As a teacher of Walter Gropius founded an art school, the sculptor, was particularly active in the return to the craft. The image of an unknown photographer shows Marcks in his Studio at the Bauhaus in Dornburg. In the Background of his character, Adam (1925).
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Sound Engineer Marcks
All sorts of sound samples has draped an unknown photographer in 1919 for his image. Especially out of a head stings the vessel in the middle of the Assemblage. The Creator of the works of Gerhard Marcks. From 1920 he was head of the Bauhaus pottery workshop in Dornburg / Saale. There he met the Bauhaus artists Otto Lindig, Max Krehan, Marguerite Friedlaender, and Franz Rudolf Wildenhain.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Earthly Taurus
This handle pot was probably formed by the Marcks-a student, and Max Krehan. The decor, a cattle has been drawn by Gerhard Marcks. The vessel was built in 1922, as “Earthenware”, a low-temperature fired ceramic material.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Abstract Figure
Specialty of the painter, sculptor and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer, the position of the human figure in space. It was his constant theme, also visible in this “Abstract figure” made of Nickel-plated Bronze. The work of the artist, who was one of the circle of friends by Gerhard Marcks, was born in 1921.
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Bauhaus-pioneer Gerhard Marcks in the New Museum Weimar
Arts And Crafts
Like Schlemmer, the Marcks-friends of Otto Hagel and Marguerite Friedlander were wild grove, a supporter of a craft oriented art. The illustrated leaf on silver gelatin from 1945 shows the hand movements when Turning a vessel. The so-called “Marguerite Wildenhain papers,” written between 1930 and 1982. The exhibition in the Neues Museum in Weimar will take up to 5. November 2017.
The dieKlassik Stiftung Weimar opened the anniversary dance to 100. Bauhaus birthday early. Because in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919, had founded the state Bauhaus as a kind of art school. The has become the most influential training centre for modern architecture, art and Design in the 20th century. Century, before the Nazis in 1933, closed.
“We must all return to crafts”
The sculptor Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981) was one of the first teachers at the Bauhaus. Like no other, he took the original idea of a renewal of all the arts.
His Credo: “architects, sculptors, painters, we must all return to crafts!”, curator Anke Blümm reminds. “Thus, Marcks and his comrades-in-arms have dropped from a more technology – and industry-oriented Bauhaus, as it developed from 1923 onwards, Martin Gropius.”
Gerhard Marcks modeled, a plaster figure
Marcks and his students – for example, the ceramist Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain (1896-1985), the silversmith Wolfgang ponds (1903-1978), or of the painter Johannes Driesch (1901-1930) – a traditional craft Ethos. The exhibition shows at the New Museum in Weimar: The more than 200 exhibits, including sculptures, drawings, paintings, and ceramics, are evidence of this artistic self-understanding. Marcks and his fellow artists have influenced each other. Not least, they were often each other’s portrait.
More than steel pipe furniture
All of this fits in with the thrust of the exhibition “ways out of the Bauhaus, Gerhard Marcks and his circle of friends”, in cooperation with the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen and the DFG project “Moving networks. Bauhaus members and their relationship networks in the 1930s and 1940s,” the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus-Senftenberg and the University of Erfurt. “We want to show that the Bauhaus was diverse,” says curator Blümm, “and that the movement does not reduce to a steel tube furniture and new Typography.”
The exhibition “ways out of the Bauhaus. Gerhard Marcks and his circle of friends,” is first to 5. To see February in the New Museum Weimar and 26. November 2017 to 4. March 2018 in the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen.