My First Visit to Marxhausen's Studio

Anne Marxhausen informed me that Reinhold often assigned his ceramic students to sculpt shoes out of clay. These are likely by his students.

This is a model for the mural in the Lincoln Community Playhouse, which I wrote about here.

[Edit: I just learned that this red pipe was constructed by Reinhold's son, Karl Marxhausen.]

John the Revelator, work by a student

From the Scrapbook - Civic Center Expo

All of these are photos from a scrapbook owned by a fan of Marxhausen's work. They were in an exposition at the Civic Center in 2002.

Bust of his wife Doris.

"Old Farmer" was written on the back of the photo and may be the title.

This photo is a bit fuzzy, but you can sort of make out these words:

Top: WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, FALL

Side bar: SKY, GROWING FIELDS, CROSS SECTION OF EARTH

SKY is written on the right side as well.

Center: SUN, SEED, CENTER (the second word is difficult to read, but I can make out the letters NOT and something else), COIN

Bottom: SEEDS, GROWING, HARVEST, FALL, PLANTING (?)

Anyone recognize this image?

A self-portrait clay bust.
This piece was created with a lightning rod and glass ball insulator.

Marxhausen's Clay Busts of Professors

Marxhausen once tried to sculpt clay busts of all the Concordia professors. After doing a few, Marxy realized the task would be far more time-consuming than he anticipated, so he moved on. Here is one completed bust owned by Prof. Pfabe. What other professors did Marxy sculpt? I'll be looking into that in the future.

- Duncan