Gerhard Marcks House, Art museum in Mitte district, Bremen, Germany.
The Gerhard Marcks House is a museum of modern and contemporary sculpture at the eastern edge of Bremen's Altstadt, next to the Kunsthalle on Am Wall. Its core is the Marcks bequest: about 430 sculptures, 13,000 drawings and over 1,200 prints. The building, a classical gatehouse of the former Ostertorwache, has two storeys behind a single row of windows and matching Doric columns.
The building was erected in 1823 as part of the Ostertorwache, a classicist gatehouse ensemble of guard and detention buildings designed by Friedrich Moritz Stamm, together with the Wilhelm Wagenfeld House opposite. It has been a protected monument since 1973. The Gerhard Marcks Foundation, initiated by Kunsthalle director Günter Busch, opened the museum in September 1971; an extension followed around 1990/91.
The museum displays works by Gerhard Marcks and regularly shows contemporary artists from around the world. Visitors can see how sculpture and drawing have developed through different periods and artistic movements.
The museum sits at the eastern edge of the Altstadt on Am Wall, directly beside the Kunsthalle, on Bremen's "Kulturmeile". The building has two storeys and a single row of windows at the front, with a 1991 extension by Peter Schnorrenberger on the south side. A small 1904 pavilion on the grounds, once a public toilet, now shows young regional artists.
The collection includes works by Waldemar Grzimek, an artist who bridged artistic traditions between East and West after World War II. His drawings document an important exchange between divided artistic worlds.
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