Markus von Gosen

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Markus von Gosen (born November 8, 1913 in Breslau , German Empire , † November 20, 2004 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German graphic artist , draftsman and painter .

Life

Markus von Gosen, son of the sculptor Theodor von Gosen , was born in Breslau. Until the end of the Second World War he lived and worked in the capital of Silesia . He made views of his hometown and stained glass windows of the St. Bernard Church there , which today serves as an architecture museum. Its glass windows were also destroyed in World War II, one of them depicting the four horsemen of the apocalypse : plague, murder, hunger and death, the symbolic embodiment of the horror of war. In 1946 he moved from Gosen to Prien am Chiemsee , where he built a fresco and glass painting workshop and also created graphics. A main theme of his work was the animal world: in his youth he portrayed birds, fish and wild cats from the Wroclaw Zoo .

In 1954 he made the marble mosaic “The Good Shepherd” for the Evangelical Paulus Church in Traunreut . In 1990 he was awarded the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony . In 1999 he published a monograph on the animal sculptor Fritz Wrampe . In 2011 works by Theodor and Markus von Gosen were exhibited under the title Father and Son in the Wroclaw City Palace, with tapestries by Markus' wife Hedwig von Gosen also on view.

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SURNAME Gosen, Markus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2004
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee