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Gerhard Marcks

Berlin 1889 – 1981 Burgbrohl/Eifel

„Weltangst“. 1919

Chestnut wood. Height (without base): 70 cm (27 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gerhard Marcks. „Weltangst“. 1919.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 108,800

 

- 163,000

Sold for:

637,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 215-221

Selected Works, Thursday, 28.11.2013

Information

Chestnut wood. Height (without base): 70 cm (27 ½ in.). Signed and inscribed in pencil on the underside of the base: Marcks Weimar. Catalogue raisonné: Rudloff 69.

Lyonel Feininger, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin and New York / Julia Feininger, New York / T. Lux Feininger, New York / Feininger family, USA

There is a loan request for the exhibition „Weltangst 1919. Depression und Vision" in Ingelheim 2019.

Freie Secession. Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, 1920, cat. no. 253

Paul Westheim: Gegenstandslose Kunst. Das Kunstblatt, 1921, year V, vol. 4, p. 120 with illustration / Exh. cat. Gerhard Marcks 1889-1981. Retrospective exhibition. Köln, Museum Ludwig in der Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie; Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, 1989/90, p. 32, ill. p. 34 (not exhibited) / Ulrich Luckhardt: Geschnitzt aus der Kastanie, die vor dem Bauhaus stand. Grisebach. Das Journal, issue 3, autumn 2013, p. 6-11, ill. p. 6

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