Artist:
Gerhard Marcks
Title:
Der Rufer
Year:
1966
Adress:
Strasse des 17. Juni
www.marcks-kuenstlerhaus.de:
Die 3 Meter hohe Bronze-Skulptur war eine Auftragsarbeit für Radio Bremen. Um die Aufgaben von Rundfunk und Fernsehen möglichst zeitlos darzustellen, schlug der Künstler die Figur des Rufers vor. Sie ist der Gestalt des Stentors aus der ›Ilias‹ von Homer nachempfunden, dessen Stimme, so heißt es, so laut war wie die von 50 Männern. In ihm sah Marcks die Verkörperung des Rechtes auf Meinungsfreiheit.
Ein weiteres Exemplar des Rufers steht seit Mai 1989 auf dem Mittelstreifen der Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin, unweit des Brandenburger Tores. Nur wenige Meter entfernt verlief bis November 1989 die Mauer. An diesem Ort sollte das Werk eine zusätzliche symbolische Bedeutung als Friedensmahner gewinnen. Seinen Sockel schmückt der Satz von Francesco Petrarca: »Ich gehe durch die Welt und rufe: Friede, Friede, Friede.«
Translation:
The 3-Meter-high Bronze sculpture was commissioned by Radio Bremen. The task of the radio and television as timeless present, the artist, the figure of the Invoker. It is designed in the shape of the Stentors from the "Iliad" of Homer, whose voice, it is said, was as loud as 50 men. In him Marcks saw the embodiment of the right to freedom of expression.
Another copy of the declarer since may 1989, on the median strip of the street of the 17th century. June in Berlin, near the Brandenburg gate. Only a few meters away is the wall ran until November 1989. In this place, the work should win an additional symbolic significance as a peace admonisher. Its Base is the set of Francesco Petrarca decorates: "I go through the world and cry, peace, peace, peace."
www.wikipedia.org:
Gerhard Marcks (18 February 1889 – 13 November 1981) was a German artist, known primarily as a sculptor, but who is also known for his drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and ceramics.
In September 1925, the Bauhaus was relocated to Dessau, and its Pottery Workshop was discontinued. Marcks moved instead to the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Burg Giebichenstein near Halle. After the death of its director, Paul Thiersch, Marcks was named his replacement, a position he continued in until his dismissal in 1933. He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of "degenerate art" in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.
Despite such persecution, Marcks continued to live in Germany (in Mecklenburg) throughout World War II. 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.
After World War II, Marcks became Professor of Sculpture at the Landeskunstschule (Regional Art School) in Hamburg, where he taught for four years, before retiring to Cologne. He also designed memorials for soldiers and civilians who had died in the war, and his work was part of the art competitions at three Olympic Games.
Die 3 Meter hohe Bronze-Skulptur war eine Auftragsarbeit für Radio Bremen. Um die Aufgaben von Rundfunk und Fernsehen möglichst zeitlos darzustellen, schlug der Künstler die Figur des Rufers vor. Sie ist der Gestalt des Stentors aus der ›Ilias‹ von Homer nachempfunden, dessen Stimme, so heißt es, so laut war wie die von 50 Männern. In ihm sah Marcks die Verkörperung des Rechtes auf Meinungsfreiheit.
Ein weiteres Exemplar des Rufers steht seit Mai 1989 auf dem Mittelstreifen der Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin, unweit des Brandenburger Tores. Nur wenige Meter entfernt verlief bis November 1989 die Mauer. An diesem Ort sollte das Werk eine zusätzliche symbolische Bedeutung als Friedensmahner gewinnen. Seinen Sockel schmückt der Satz von Francesco Petrarca: »Ich gehe durch die Welt und rufe: Friede, Friede, Friede.«
Translation:
The 3-Meter-high Bronze sculpture was commissioned by Radio Bremen. The task of the radio and television as timeless present, the artist, the figure of the Invoker. It is designed in the shape of the Stentors from the "Iliad" of Homer, whose voice, it is said, was as loud as 50 men. In him Marcks saw the embodiment of the right to freedom of expression.
Another copy of the declarer since may 1989, on the median strip of the street of the 17th century. June in Berlin, near the Brandenburg gate. Only a few meters away is the wall ran until November 1989. In this place, the work should win an additional symbolic significance as a peace admonisher. Its Base is the set of Francesco Petrarca decorates: "I go through the world and cry, peace, peace, peace."
www.wikipedia.org:
Gerhard Marcks (18 February 1889 – 13 November 1981) was a German artist, known primarily as a sculptor, but who is also known for his drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and ceramics.
In September 1925, the Bauhaus was relocated to Dessau, and its Pottery Workshop was discontinued. Marcks moved instead to the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Burg Giebichenstein near Halle. After the death of its director, Paul Thiersch, Marcks was named his replacement, a position he continued in until his dismissal in 1933. He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of "degenerate art" in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.
Despite such persecution, Marcks continued to live in Germany (in Mecklenburg) throughout World War II. 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.
After World War II, Marcks became Professor of Sculpture at the Landeskunstschule (Regional Art School) in Hamburg, where he taught for four years, before retiring to Cologne. He also designed memorials for soldiers and civilians who had died in the war, and his work was part of the art competitions at three Olympic Games.