![]() ![]() ![]() Two years later, his work was condemned as ‘degenerate art’. In 1935, he received a six-month scholarship from Villa Massimo. In 1933, Marcks was dismissed from his director’s post by the National Socialists and banned from teaching at an institute of higher education. In 1926, he participated in the Internationale Kunstausstellung Dresden (International Art Exhibition Dresden) and received the prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists) in Stuttgart in 1930. Between 19, Marcks worked as assistant director of the institute of art in Halle. On the recommendation of the architect Paul Thiersch, Marcks accepted a post as head of sculpture at the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of applied arts) Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. At the Bauhaus, Marcks produced, in addition to many well-known ceramic works, the woodcut series Wielandslied (Song of Wieland) of 1923 and the Sintrax Coffee Maker of 1924. Marcks began to establish his own workshop on the premises of the master potter Max Krehan and established his own studio nearby in Dornburg an der Saale. In 1919, Walter Gropius appointed Marcks as one of the first masters of the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, where he became the artistic director (master of form) of the ceramics workshop. In late 1918, Bruno Paul appointed him to teach the sculpture class at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule (school of applied arts) in Berlin. After completing his military service, he went on to work for the Märkische Kunstwerkstätten (Vordamm art workshops) of the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factories in 1917/18 and joined the state porcelain manufacturer Meissen a year later. In 1914, two stone reliefs by Marcks based on a design by Walter Gropius were placed at the entrance to the machine hall for the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) exhibition in Cologne. Marcks was represented at the Berlin Secession with two works. From 1908 to 1912, he shared a studio in Berlin with the sculptor Richard Scheibe. His first endeavours were guided by the artists August Gaul and Gerhard Kolbe. ![]() In 1907, Marcks began to teach himself to sculpt. ![]()
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