GERHARD MARCKS (1889-1981). Standing in shirt.

Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981), standing in shirt, bronze with brown patina, 1956, on the plinth with the artist's logo, numbered on the back of the plinth and with the foundry stamp 'RICH BARTH BLN MARIENDORF', copy 2/8, height ca. 43.5 cm

List of works: Rudloff 657.

The sculptor Gerhard Marcks was a master at the State Bauhaus in Weimar and from 1925 head of the sculpture class at the Burg Giebichenstein art school in Halle, whose rectorate he took over in 1928. In 1933 he was dismissed by the National Socialists, who then defamed several of his works in the “Degenerate Art” exhibition. In 1945 he received an appointment at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg and worked freelance from 1950.
Marcks often dealt with female nude or robe figures. The 'Little Standing in a Shirt' was created as early as 1932. At Gerhard Marck's House in Bremen, there are preparatory pencil studies for the bronze 'standing in a shirt. '.