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Artist:     Erich Mercker (1891 Zabern/Elsass - 1973 Munich)
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Item ID   5653
Price:     5000.00 €
   

   
 

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" In the Port of Hamburg", this painting was executed by Erich Mercker (1891 in Zabern, French Saverne, Alsace - 1973 in Munich), prominent landscape, industrial and urban painter and speed skater.Identical view of port of Hamburg by E.Mercker was sold in Vienna Dorotheum with high result 9500 € ( siehe last image).

From 1911 Mercker studied civil engineering at the TH Munich. From around 1915 he began - as an autodidact - to devote himself to oil painting. In the 1920s he made trips to Austria, Italy, southern France, Sweden and Norway. During this time numerous Impressionist landscape pictures were created, painted with a spatula. He also painted the first industrial pictures, for which Mercker should become famous, in this era. Since 1921 he was a member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG). In 1926 he also became a member of the Munich artist associations "Ring" and "Isar". In 1937 he took part in the World Exhibition in Paris and received the “great gold medal” for four monumental oil paintings. Since 1938 he was represented several times at the Great German Art Exhibitions of the National Socialists in the Munich House of Art, such as in 1939 with The site of November 9th (day of the Hitler coup), in 1940 marble for the Reich Chancellery, in 1941 granite quarries in Flossenbürg, in 1942 submarines and still. In 1941 his opus Hermann Göring Works was also exhibited.

The work from the quarry of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, made in 1942, is part of the exhibition at the memorial. It falsely depicts the quarry as a civilian craft business; working inmates are hardly recognizable as such in the picture.

After 1945 he mainly painted for large companies such as MAN, Volkswagen and Bayer. His extensive oeuvre (it is estimated to be over 3000 oil paintings) has hardly been explored. Mercker is one of the most important industrial painters of the 20th century. His pictures are also offered at well-known auction houses such as Christie´s in London or Dorotheum in Vienna.

His works include: represented in the following museums: German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven; German Historical Museum Berlin; Bavarian State Painting Collections Munich; City Museum Kiel; Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg; Frankenthal City Museum; West Prussian State Museum Münster; Milwaukee School of Engineering, Grohmann Collection.

Mercker was also a talented speed skater. In 1912 he was German champion, in 1913 runner-up in the all-around competition, in 1912 he also won the Eberhardt Streich challenge Award.

Literature: in German: Hans Vollmer "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts ". V. 3, A. Seemann, Leipzig 1956; Volkmar von Pechstaedt: "Erich Mercker", Hainholz, Göttingen 2003.

Inscription: signed E.Mercker, Mnchn ( Munich), lower right.

Technique: framed oil on canvas.

Measurements: unframed w 312/3" x h 35 1/3" (80,5 x 90 cm), framed w36 1/3" x h 40 1/8" (92,5 x 102 cm)

Condition: in very good condition