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 ...