Maja
Marcks, Gerhard
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Date
1941Description
Upper torso and head, front side; Earlier, Marcks had made the models for a series of animal sculptures. In time, his focus shifted to the human figure, and it was this subject that continued to hold his attention for the rest of his life. In 1937, when twenty-four of his works were confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis, he was prohibited from exhibiting and threatened with being forbidden to work. During this period, he made several trips to Italy, where he worked in the Villa Romana in Florence and the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1943, his studio in Berlin was bombed during an air raid, and many of his works destroyed. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/12/2009)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
figure, female, nude in art, female nudity, Twentieth century
Rights
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