Gert Marcus

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Di-eder at Sergels Torg in Stockholm
The sequence by Di-eder in Lindholmen in Gothenburg
Body and line in front of the Norrköping Art Museum

Gert Olof Marcus (born November 10, 1914 in Groß Borstel in Hamburg , † December 23, 2008 in Stockholm ) was a German-Swedish painter and sculptor .

Life

Gert Marcus was born in Germany to the German lawyer Paul Marcus and the Swedish Hilda Maria Dahl. He was a painter from the beginning and was interested in how to create distance and volume using only pure colors, without mixing them with black or white. In addition to a few months from 1936–37 at Otte Sköld's painting school and a time at the Ateneum in Helsinki from 1937–1938, Gert Marcus was self-taught. He became one of Sweden's most consistent Concretists, although he himself renounced allisms. From 1933 he lived in Stockholm, but also for a long time in Menton, Brittany, Paris and Massa-Carrara in Italy.

He showed an early interest in Paul Cézanne's painting, how to create space and volume only with the help of pure colors and without using the Renaissance perspective. As a result, Gert Marcus developed a color theory to which he would remain faithful in all of his art. In 1955 he met the artists Michel Seuphor , Nicolas Schöffer and Georges Vantongerloo in Paris. With the latter, Marcus developed a long and rewarding friendship. The correspondence between them was published by the Akademie der Künste in 2000. In the 1950s, Gert Marcus received several important commissions. In 1954 he made a mosaic wall in the St. Michael Chapel in Mora, in 1957 a mosaic in Stockholm's police house, in 1959 a choir wall in the Vantör Church in Stockholm and in 1959 a glass mosaic in the foyer of the Sergelteatern. The latter is to be built in a future museum.

From 1975 he was married to the artist Françoise Ribeyrolles-Marcus (* 1944).

The "Marcus and Dahl Initiative"

In 2017 the residents of Groß Borstel founded a new company, "Initiative Marcus und Dahl", with the aim of increasing interest in the work of Gert Marcus and Ingolf Dahl and other artists who live or work or have lived or worked in Groß-Borstel to revive. In November 2017, the Hamburg Senate named the new Gert-Marcus-Strasse near the family house from before the Second World War after him. Gert Marcus was described as one of the most important Swedish sculptors and as the persecuted by National Socialism , who immigrated to Sweden in the 1930s.

Public works in selection

  • Cross mosaic and cross composition, sgraffito, 1954, St. Michael Chapel in Mora
  • Cross mosaic, 1958–1859, in Vantörs Church in Stockholm
  • An internal department , 1965–1966, Santelena Marble and Diabas, Karlaplan in Stockholm
  • Coloring of house facades in Flemingsberg in Huddinge, spray-painted sheet metal, 1973
  • Body and line , Carrara marble, 1982, Stadsparken in Lund
  • My place , Carrara marble, 1983–1984, Hjelmsjöfabrikens Park in Örkelljunga
  • Color space , lacquered aluminum, 1984, Sankt Göran's hospital in Stockholm
  • Cubo centrifugo-centripeto , Carrara marble, 1984–1985, sculpture park in front of the Norrköping Art Museum
  • The di-eder sequence , twelve parts, painted steel plate, 1968–1969, erected in 1994 on Lindholmens Kai in Gothenburg
  • Design by Bagarmossen (subway station) in Stockholm (1990–94), glass, color laminate, gray marble floor
  • Dieder , painted sheet steel, 1966–1968, erected in 1998 at Sergels Torg in Stockholm
  • The extension of the circle , 1999, marble, sculpture courtyard of the Skissernas museums in Lund
  • Sfera centripeta centrifuge , 1971, marble, installed in 2000 in Turano Lodigiano in Lombardy, Italy
  • Color differences or three steps from the unknown Plexiglas , 2002, the Flemingsberg Library in Huddinge
  • Vertical unit , 2005, Sigfrid's cemetery in Borås
  • Three units , Eilat Peace Park , Israel
  • Marcus is represented in the Stockholm National Museum .

literature

  • Georges Vantongerloo and Gert Marcus: Vantongerloo Marcus - Letters and Notes. Raster Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-91-87214-653 .
  • Gert Marcus - The Transformation of Distance. Carlssons Verlag 2013.
  • Jeannette Niegel: Marcus, Gert (Gert Olof) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 87, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0 , p. 171.
  • Marcus, Gert Olof . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 322 .

Web links

Commons : Gert Marcus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vantongerloo, Georges; Marcus Gert, Waldén Katja (2000). Vantongerloo Marcus: Letters and Notes. The Academy of Fine Arts Writing Series, 99-0464375-X; 7. Stockholm: grid. Libris link. ISBN 91-87214-65-2
  2. ↑ The website of the Marcus and Dahl society: www.marcus-und-dahl.de
  3. ↑ Official gazette. Part II of the Hamburg Law and Ordinance Gazette. December 1, 2017, p. 2038.
  4. ↑ http://www.gertmarcus.se/
  5. ↑ From the Greek di = two and Eid = surface
personal data
SURNAME Marcus, Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Gert Olof (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Borstel in Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2008
Place of death Stockholm