Carl Marx (painter)

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Carl Marx (born August 18, 1911 in Göttnitz , † March 10, 1991 in Dessau ) was a German painter.

Life

Marx was born the son of a miller and organized worker. After attending secondary school in Dessau , he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter there in 1926. In 1927 he joined the socialist youth workers . After completing his apprenticeship training in 1929, he began a hike through Austria and Switzerland that lasted until 1930, during which he also took part in the international youth convention in Vienna.

From 1931 to 1933 he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin. After their closure he was unemployed in Dessau from 1933 to 1935. Between 1935 and 1938 he took on a job as a house painter, from 1938 to 1939 he was forced to build the west wall. In 1940 he was drafted into the military. After being wounded in 1942, he was released as a severely disabled person. From 1943 to 1945 he got a job as a testing assistant in an armaments factory in Dessau, and after the end of the war he did odd jobs until 1947.

Marx joined the SED after the war , but was expelled again in 1953 due to a lack of adaptation. The first exhibition of his works took place in Dessau in 1947, and since then he has been working freelance in Dessau, interrupted in 1953 by his work as a concrete builder. In 1948 he first took part in the state and later district art exhibitions in Halle (Saale). In 1971 he was able to take part in an exhibition in the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg zu Halle (Saale), and in 1986 he realized an exhibition in the Bauhaus Dessau. In 1990 he initiated a dispute about the planned reconstruction of the Dessau station concourse.

Marx died on March 10, 1991. Another planned exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau , for which Marx painted until the end, did not materialize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter H. Feist: Seriously meant game article in Neues Deutschland from August 18, 2011

literature

  • Wolfgang Hütt : Carl Marx (painter and work) . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978
  • Carl Marx. Painting . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. With articles by Wolfgang Hütt and Andreas Hüneke . Published by the art association "Talstraße" 2004, ISBN 3-932962-16-8 .
  • Carl Marx. Cheeky, good pictures. Works from the estate. Published by the Potsdamer Kunstverein on behalf of the Carl Marx estate administration on the occasion of the 100th birthday on August 18, 2011. With texts by Andreas Hüneke and Carl Marx. Potsdamer Kunstverein, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-931640-73-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marx, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1991
Place of death Dessau