Gerhard Marcks House

The Gerhard- Marcks-Haus is a museum of modern and contemporary sculpture in Bremen. It lies on the eastern edge of the district directly adjacent to the Old Town Art Gallery in the ramparts on the road to Am Wall, which is also known as a "cultural mile" in this section.

Nowadays, it retains the majority of the estate of the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks. Approximately 430 of his sculptures and sculptures, 13,000 drawings and over 1200 leaf print graphic form the core of the collection's holdings. This is shown in changing exhibitions. Players could also be over the decades also secured and worked the estates of Waldemar Grzimek and Gerhart Schreiter. In addition to these, the Gerhard- Marcks-Haus also shows works by Reginald Cotterell Butler and others, for example in special shows works of Aristide Maillol, Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Ernst Barlach, Joseph Beuys, Per Kirkeby, Markus Liipertz, Vadim Abramovich Sidur and Alberto Giacometti.

History

The premises of the museum have a long history of building. In 1823 they were built together with the Wilhelm- Wagenfeld - house on the opposite side of the road after plans by Friedrich Moritz tribe as a classical ensemble of gatehouse guard and Detention building Ostertorwache. The building is a historical monument since 1973.

Marcks had good contacts in the Bremer cultural scene - not least because of his sculptures, The Bremen Town Musicians (1953) and The Caller (1966 ) that he developed for the Hanseatic city. In 1966, he decided to transfer significant parts of his life's work in cooperation with the Kunstverein and the city into a foundation. Three years later, was constituted on the initiative of the then Kunsthalle director Günter Busch Gerhard Marcks Foundation. The worn by her museum was opened in September 1971. In the 1980s, the foundation's mission extended to the presentation and research at the " whole " sculpture of the 20th century - including the present. At the turn of 1990/1991 the museum was enlarged with an annex on the south side. In the same year, the Foundation acquired the house standing on the land known as the Pavilion of the city. In the little house with a square floor plan, it was originally built in 1904 to a public restroom. It underwent a complete renovation of the pavilion and now serves as the only bright interior exhibition space for most young artists from the region. Since 1990, courses are offered in the museum 's studio, where those interested can try under the guidance of artists in sculpture, painting, drawing and in the printmaking and woodcuts.