Marcks, Gerhard

Description:

Berlin, 1889 - 1981
H. 41 cm
"Kniender Prophet", 1936. Bronze, brown patina, on bronze base. Signed and numbered 1/8 on the base. Foundry stamp: Guss Barth Berlin.
Rudloff, 330.
Gerhard Marck's work diary plaster/bronze no. 173.
Private property, Donaueschingen.
Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Oflingen/Hochrhein.
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg, acquired there in 1971.
Exhibition:
A cast of this sculpture was exhibited in:
"Gerhard Marcks", Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 1937, cat. no. 16.
"Gerhard Marcks", Kunstsalon Fischer, Bielefeld 1937, cat.-no. 16.
"Christliche Kunst der Gegenwart", Stadt Köln, Köln 1948, cat.-no. 386.
"Gerhard Marcks", Kunstverein, Hamburg 1949, cat.-no. 62.
"Gerhard Marcks", Galerie Hoffmann, Hamburg 1949.
"Gerhard Marcks", Kloster Marienberg, Helmstedt 1965, cat.-no. 1.
"Gerhard Marcks", Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1967, cat.-no. 68.
"Gerhard Marcks", Sally Judd Gallery, Portland 1970.
"Kunstausstellung der Evangelischen Kirche", Öflingen 1971, cat.-fig. p. 103.
Literature:
Hugo Schnell, "Christliche Kunst der Gegenwart" in: "Das Münster", 1949, Jg. 2, h. 7/8, p. 200.
"Knaurs Lexikon der Modernen Plastik", München/Zurich 1961, p. 195, with ill.