Franz Marc:
Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed
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Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed
Franz Marc:
Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed

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limited, 980 copies | numbered certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size approx. 76.5 x 58.5 cm (h/w)

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Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed
Franz Marc: Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed

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Picture "Blue Horse I" (1911), framed

The horse - Franz Marc's favourite motif - symbolises life par excellence. It connects past and future, heaven and earth. Powerful and dynamic, it stands on the ground of reality and yet soars up into heavenly spheres. The colour blue symbolises the superordinate spiritual, freedom and infinity.
Original: 1911, oil on canvas, 112 x 84.5 cm, Bernhard Koehler Foundation 1965, Inv. No. G 13 324 Munich, Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus.

High-quality reproduction using the Fine Art Giclée process directly on artist's canvas and stretched like an original painting on an adjustable solid wood stretcher frame. A noble studio framing with profiled real wood strip in black with gold edge, matt patinated completes the overall impression. Limited edition of 980 copies. Numbered on a certificate on the back. Size approx. 76.5 x 58.5 cm (h/w).

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Portrait of the artist Franz Marc

About Franz Marc

1880-1916

Franz Marc's unique talent was recognised and encouraged at the Munich Academy. On several trips to Paris, he discovered the works of van Gogh for the first time, which made a significant impression on him and helped him to develop an independent artistic language. Through his friend August Macke, he met Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Alfred Kubin, with whom he founded the Expressionist artists' association "Der Blaue Reiter" in 1911. At the outbreak of World War I, Marc was drafted into military service and died two years later in the Battle of Verdun.

Marc examined Naturalism, Art Nouveau and French Impressionism, but sought a new language of expression in order to be able to depict "the spiritual essence of things". With unprecedented consistency, he approached a new form of art in which colours acquired a symbolic meaning far beyond naturalistic representation: "Every colour must clearly say who and what it is, and must be set on clear shapes", Marc explained. For him, blue is the colour of the spiritual, red is love, passion and vulnerability, yellow is the sun and femininity.

Animal, in particular, were the focus of his painting, as they, in contrast to people, symbolised originality and purity to him. Just like Kandinsky, he sought the renewal of the spiritual in art.

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