Sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks (1889–1981) was master of the potter’s shop in Dornburg {see planet (3802)}, a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar {see, respectively, planets (8502) and (3539)} and until 1933 director of the Arts and Crafts School in Halle-Giebichenstein. Until 1945 his representations of animals, figurines, drawings and woodcuts were regarded as degenerate. (M 36950) _ _.
Discovered on 9-4-1991 in Tautenburg by Borngen, F.