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Gert Olof Marcus

Gert Olof Marcus (1914 - 2008) was active/lived in Sweden, Germany.  Gert Marcus is known for Marble slab geometric shape sculpture, colored sheet metal, fine art painting.

From the beginning, Gert Marcus was a painter, but above all he has become known for his uncompromising sculptures in pure simple forms. The choice of material has always been important to him and for his works he used, among other things, painted sheet metal, metal, granite, glass, perpex, slate, cement and the pure white Carrara marble.

Through his art, Gert Marcus has strictly adhered to constructivism and devoted himself to exploring lines and the richly varied forms he used. The starting point is usually stereometric shapes such as the globe, the cube, the cylinder and the cone. He also always strived for the purity of the color, that is, the shade that is closest to the spectral color.

GertMarcus was born in 1914 in Gross Borstel, a suburb of Hamburg, as the son of the German lawyer Paul Marcus and his Swedish wife Hilda Maria Dahl. Due to the gloomy and troubled atmosphere in Germany and the approaching anti-Semitic currents in the country, Gert Marcus left Ham   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2451 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Gert Olof Marcus

   Gert Olof Marcus  Born:  1914 - Gross Borstel, Germany
Died:   2008
Known for:  Marble slab geometric shape sculpture, colored sheet metal, fine art painting

Biography from Stockholm Auktionsverk

From the beginning, Gert Marcus was a painter, but above all he has become known for his uncompromising sculptures in pure simple forms. The choice of material has always been important to him and for his works he used, among other things, painted sheet metal, metal, granite, glass, perpex, slate, cement and the pure white Carrara marble.

Through his art, Gert Marcus has strictly adhered to constructivism and devoted himself to exploring lines and the richly varied forms he used. The starting point is usually stereometric shapes such as the globe, the cube, the cylinder and the cone. He also always strived for the purity of the color, that is, the shade that is closest to the spectral color.

GertMarcus was born in 1914 in Gross Borstel, a suburb of Hamburg, as the son of the German lawyer Paul Marcus and his Swedish wife Hilda Maria Dahl. Due to the gloomy and troubled atmosphere in Germany and the approaching anti-Semitic currents in the country, Gert Marcus left Hamburg in the autumn of 1933 and moved to Sweden.

In Stockholm, he spent his first time painting, drawing and studying Swedish history. Paul Cézanne became his teacher at a young age and he learned from him image building with its ambiguous perspective and the ability to create volume with colors. In the late 1930s, he traveled to Aix-en-Provence to visit the master's home region and experience the lights and colors of Provence.

After a short period of study at Otte Sköld's painting school in 1934 and the Ateneum in Helsinki in 1936, Gert Marcus chose an autodidactic path.


Biography from Bukowski Stockholm

Gert Marcus was a Swedish artist born in Germany to a Swedish mother. He fled from the Nazis and settled in Stockholm in 1933. Marcus was self-taught and developed an interest in Paul Cézanne's painting, which led him to create a color theory that he remained faithful to throughout his career. He explored how to create distance and volume with pure colors alone, without mixing them with black or white. During the 1950s, Marcus received several public commissions, including a mosaic wall in Saint Michael's chapel in Mora, a wall mosaic in Stockholm's police house, a chancel wall in Vantör's church in Stockholm, and a wall mosaic in broken glass in the foyer of the Sergelteatern. Marcus is represented in several museums, including the National Museum and the Modern Museum in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, and the Norrköping Museum of Art.


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