Relief
Ceramic relief panel, 'Drinkers at Café', showing a group of male workers drinking by the coast, earthenware with fragments of handpainted glazed earthenware. Set in concrete in a brass frame.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, hand-painted and glazed fragments, set concrete |
| Brief description | Ceramic relief panel, 'Drinkers at Café', showing a group of male workers drinking by the coast, earthenware with fragments of handpainted glazed earthenware, Grete Marks, Britain, mid to late 20th Century |
| Physical description | Ceramic relief panel, 'Drinkers at Café', showing a group of male workers drinking by the coast, earthenware with fragments of handpainted glazed earthenware. Set in concrete in a brass frame. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'MM' (Artist's signature, initials, for 'Margarete Marks', incised in bottom right corner) |
| Credit line | Given by David and Jean Richardson |
| Object history | Grete Marks came to the UK in 1936, after her studio in Germany was confiscated by the Nazi political party. Originally a Bauhaus student, her work began to change after she settled in London. She became increasingly interested in watercolour painting, and through combining this with her expertise as a potter, she began producing ceramic relief panels and murals such as this. She would combine her own pottery, with found fragments, as well as other media, including glass, and sea shells, setting the finished composition in a mix of earthenware and concrete. |
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| Bibliographic reference | 'Mosaic Sculpture: decorative medium developed by Margaret Marks', Industrial Architecture, Nov-Dec 1960 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.6-2019 |
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| Record created | December 10, 2018 |
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