Set of 4 animal pictures, framed
Set of 4 animal pictures, framed
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 1,000 copies each | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 28 x 36 cm (h/w) each
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Set of 4 animal pictures, framed
Franz Marc and his power of colours: Together with Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke, Franz Marc founded the legendary "Blaue Reiter". He opened the way for an art in which colours acquired a symbolic meaning far beyond naturalistic representation.
Four of Franz Marc's most famous paintings are now available as painting replicas in outstanding quality. The original artwork was transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process for a brilliant, authentic reproduction and stretched onto a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 1,000 copies each. With a wide solid wood frame. Size framed 28 x 36 cm (h/w) each. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
"The Great Blue Horses" (1911): Blue symbolises masculinity, as well as the superior spiritual, freedom and infinity. The horse, which is Franz Marc's favourite motif, represents life par excellence. Original: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
"The White Cat" (Cat on a Yellow Pillow) (1912): for Franz Marc white symbolises the unknown, infinite possibilities and the mystical - the cat and yellow represent women and femininity. Original: Halle an der Saale, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg.
"Cows Yellow-Red-Green" (1912): Like ancient Egyptians, Marc perceived yellow as the colour of feminity, the "gentle, serene, sensual". Green as a symbiosis of yellow and blue creates growth and wisdom.
"Red Deer II" (1912): To Franz Marc, red meant love, warmth and passion - but at the same time innocence and vulnerability, which is (also) symbolised by the deer. Original: Kochel am See, Franz Marc Museum, on loan from the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
All four Franz Marc pictures in a set.
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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.
The German artists‘ association "Der Blaue Reiter" ("The Blue Rider") was founded in Munich in 1911 by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc during the German Expressionist period.
The name was originally the title of the painting by Kandinsky and also the title of the almanac published by Kandinsky and Marc. Members included Paul Klee and August Macke. The group criticised the prevailing art canon as too academic and elitist and demanded more openness and diversity. The artists turned away from realism and began to paint expressively in an increasingly abstract style using strong colours.
The group disbanded at the beginning of World War I.
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Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists attempted to advance to the primal elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas and with the emphasis on the line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among the sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.