1889 | born in Berlin at the Kurfürstendamm |
1907 | studies animals at the Berlin Zoo; acquaintance with the sculptor Richard Scheibe |
1907-12 | Turns to sculpture as an autodidact |
1914/15 | War service in Flanders; return as seriously ill; first trips to Paris |
1918 | Appointment to the School of Applied Arts in Berlin |
1919 | Appointment at the State Bauhaus in Weimar; there, head of the pottery workshop in Dornburg |
1925 | Dissolution of the Bauhaus in Weimar; appointment to the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts in Halle a. d. Saale |
1925-27 | Travels in Italy |
1928 | First trip to Greece and change of artistic conception |
1930 | Deputy director of the School of Arts and Crafts at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle a. d. Saale |
1933 | Dismissal from teaching position |
1937 | Works by Marcks are included in the exhibition "Degenerate Art"; exhibition ban and confiscation of works in the Buchholz Gallery (Berlin) |
1943 | Destruction of his studio in Berlin-Nikolassee |
1945 | Appointment to the art academy in Hamburg |
1949 | Goethe Medal; trip to Spain |
1950 | Moves to Cologne-Müngersdorf; from then on works as a freelance sculptor; trip to the USA |
| 1951 Marcks designs the Bremen Town Musicians as a landmark for the city of Bremen |
1952-55 | Travels in Italy, Greece, South Africa; numerous honors and art awards; participates in the Venice Biennale and Documenta I |
1959 | Participation in documenta II |
1963 | Travels to the USA and Mexico |
1969 | Establishment of the Gerhard Marcks Foundation |
1971 | Opening of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen |
1981 | died in Burgbrohl (Eifel) |