Franz Marc
During his career, Franz Marc created about 60 pieces in lithography and woodcut. Many of his pieces depicted animals, in their natural setting and habitat. The use of bold, bright colors …
The Red Horses by Franz Marc
The Red Horses by Franz Marc. By early 1911 Marc had already developed a symbolism for his use of color. In this, he followed a pattern established by an early-nineteenth-century German …
Franz Marc Biography
They featured works by members of the group and by other artists, including the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, Delaunay, and the French artist Henri Rousseau whose work was chosen by …
Tiger by Franz Marc
Tiger by Franz Marc. The furious activity of late 1911 and early 1912 had a considerable effect on Marc's work. In style, his paintings of 1912 clearly show the influence of the two Blaue Reiter …
Yellow Cow by Franz Marc
Yellow Cow by Franz Marc. The antic joie de vivre of the Yellow Cow is the first and perhaps the only case in Marc's career of a joyous animal. It is totally abandoned to play. Marc avoids the …
Lenggries Horse by Franz Marc
Lenggries Horse by Franz Marc. Lenggries Horse Painting is perhaps the first work in which Marc reveals himself as the treat colorist he would become. the application of paint is viutuosolike. A …
Franz Marc, Der Blaue Reiter, and Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter: Kandinsky, Macke, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc. The artists of Der Blaue Reiter group shared an inclination towards abstraction, symbolic content, and spiritual allusion. They …
The Tower of Blue Horses, by Franz Marc
The Tower of Blue Horses, by Franz Marc. On its surface, The Tower of Blue Horses presents a far less dramatic image than Fate of the Animals. There are no streaking diagonals, no …
Blue Horse, by Franz Marc
Blue Horse, by Franz Marc. Wassily Kandinsky wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1911, at the time Yellow Cow was painted. In that book, he emphasized the significance of the triangle …