Gert Marcus

Gert Marcus and his brother Holger moved to Sweden in 1933; other family members joined them there.Apart from a few months studying at the Otte Skölds målarskola (1936–37) (now Pernby School of Painting) in Stockholm and some months at the Ateneum School in Helsinki, Finland (1937–1938), Gert Marcus was an autodidact.

Marcus lived most of his life in Stockholm but he worked for long periods in France in Menton, L’Esconil (Brittany) and Paris, and in Italy at Massa-Carrara.

Early in his life he was influenced by Paul Cézanne's attempts in determining how to create space and volume without the use of Renaissance perspective.

Marcus was frequently commissioned to provide sculptural monuments in public spaces in Sweden and even to design the interior of the Bagarmossen metro station in Stockholm.

Marcus married twice, first to Anne-Marie Söderlund, a marriage that lasted from 1945 to 1970 and produced two children, Anna and Claude and then, in 1977, to fellow sculptor Françoise Ribeyrolles-Marcus, with whom he fathered a second daughter, Aurelia.