Like no other artist, Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse--a central topic in the fine arts--as his life's work. As a painter and co-founder of the "Blaue Reiter" he created symbolic, visionary images which today stand among the icons of modernism. This publication presents an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, gouaches and a number of famous postcards--from his nature studies of 1905 and 1906 to the sketches he made on the eve of World War I. During this short period of time, the horse motif became ...
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Like no other artist, Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse--a central topic in the fine arts--as his life's work. As a painter and co-founder of the "Blaue Reiter" he created symbolic, visionary images which today stand among the icons of modernism. This publication presents an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, gouaches and a number of famous postcards--from his nature studies of 1905 and 1906 to the sketches he made on the eve of World War I. During this short period of time, the horse motif became increasingly central, especially after Marc moved from Munich to the secluded upper Bavarian village of Sindelsdorf. With a skill for precise observation and intuitive understanding, Marc attempted an ''animalization of art, '' in which the horse became both subject and expression of the hope for better and more organic existence.
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4to. 284 pp. Hard Cover. in Dust Jacket. Color and black and white plates throughout. Essays by Karin Von Maur, Andreas Schalhorn, Andrea K. Vetter and Klaus Zeeb. Very Good. Provenance: From the collection of Gallery Pasquale Iannetti, San Francisco. *Heavy book; shipping cost may be extra.
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Franz Marc. Dust Jacket Included. Celery cloth, blue titles, blue endpapers/pastedown, frontis illustration, & many color illustrations in the text; A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket; 284 pages. Size: 8.75"x11"