Marie Marcks

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Marie Marcks (born August 25, 1922 in Berlin , † December 7, 2014 in Heidelberg ) was a German cartoonist .

Life

Marie Marcks grew up in Berlin. Her father was an architect , her mother a graphic designer and ran a private art school. The sculptor Gerhard Marcks is her uncle. After completing high school at Birklehof boarding school in Hinterzarten ( Black Forest ) and training at her mother's art school, Marie Marcks studied architecture for a few semesters in Berlin and Stuttgart during the Second World War . After dropping out of her studies, Marie Marcks worked as a freelance artist in Heidelberg.

In the 1940s and 1950s she mainly created posters, and in 1958 she was assigned the graphic design for the German contribution to Expo 58 , the world exhibition in Brussels .

She began publishing cartoons in the early 1960s. Her first works appeared in the magazine atomzeitalter by Claus Koch , for which she worked as a permanent caricaturist from 1963 to 1966. Over time, she expanded her drawings to include topics from the socio-political and feminist areas. This made her one of the most important cartoonists in the Federal Republic of Germany. Marie Marcks published numerous books, regularly caricatures in widespread publications such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Stern , the Spiegel , Titanic and Vorwärts, as well as autobiographical records from everyday family life.

In 1984 and 1989 her drawn autobiography “Marie, es brennt!” And “Schwarz-Weiß und bunt” appeared in two volumes with a total of over 300 pages. In doing so, she collated her early works into new drawings.

Her pictures, in black and white or with colored pencil, are often concentrated with speech bubbles or subtexts to create snapshots of a development (story). A wealth of details and puns are typical features. Marcks often took a dedicated position on political issues of the day in local or national politics. In drawing, she was a companion and contemporary of the much younger Franziska Becker and Claire Bretécher . References to contemporary art appear again and again in her pictures. She was still drawing until shortly before her death at the age of 92, and in an interview she even described the period between 60 and 80 as her most productive.

Her style began in the 1960s with echoes of Bosc and Chaval . The French satire magazine Hara-Kiri and Jean-Marc Reiser were influential in its development . In the course of time, she developed her distinctive figures with long noses. Your collaboration with the New Frankfurt School is considered to have influenced the development of a type of nonsense from which Sigmar Polke and Martin Kippenberger emerged.

She became the mother of five children (two daughters and three sons) and lived in Heidelberg.

Marie Marcks' artistic estate was bought up in 2013 with the help of the Kulturstiftung der Länder by the German Museum for Caricature and Drawing Art Wilhelm Busch in Hanover, which organized a retrospective of the artist from May to October 2015 .

Awards

Works

Solo exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Marie Marcks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Thomas Werner (ed.): Great moments of humanity - by Marie Marcks . Caricatures from the last 50 years. On the occasion of an exhibition in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg. Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-926318-73-2 , especially pp. 273-275.
  • Michael Buselmeier (ed.): Experienced story told 1994–1997. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-88423-175-8 , pp. 221-235 (conversation with Marie Marcks about her life and work).
  • WP Fahrenberg (Ed.): Master of the comic art: Marie Marcks. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88897-717-6 , especially pp. 105–110.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas Platthaus : Emancipation as a way of life . On the death of Marie Marcks. In: FAZ . December 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: Marie Marcks zum 90 .: From today we say penis. on: sueddeutsche.de , August 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Legendary draftsman Marie Marcks: "There were old Nazis on every corner". on: spiegel.de , August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Zeit-Magazin No. 31, July 26, 2012, p. 46.
  5. ^ Nothing against men ... caricatures and drawings by Marie Marcks. In: exhibitions. Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature & Drawing, accessed on April 18, 2017 : “31. May to October 11, 2015 "
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Marcks, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2014
Place of death Heidelberg