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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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