Mercker erich biography of william

34, nos. 1 & 2.  It is reproduced here on H-Labor Arts to make it available to a wider audience.  I wrote this article while I was in the midst of finishing a book-length manuscript on Erich Mercker, who was, undoubtedly, one of the top industrial artists in Germany from 1919 to 1945.  He and his contemporaries (e.g., Fritz Gärtner, Franz Gerwin, Ria Picco-Rückert, Leonhard Sandrock, and Richard Gessner) constituted a school of artists who I have provisionally labeled the “Heroic School” of German industrial art from 1919 to 1945.  The Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has paintings produced by virtually all of these artists.  It also has more than 90 paintings by Erich Mercker, more than any other art museum in the world