Listed German Artist Franz Marc (1880-1916) Signed Watercolor Painting

Description: Winner receives an original signed watercolor painting by well listed German artist Franz Marx (1880-1916). The painting is signed in the lower right corner, seen magnified in picture 5. The painting is in excellent overall condition with no rips, tears, repairs, staining, foxing, toning, water damage, or in-painting. It is housed in a gorgeous ornate gold gilt & gesso frame. The frame is also in excellent condition with no major losses. There are a few stress cracks and minor chips as expected with the age. All four corners have been touched up and professionaly repaired. The piece is a real gem and ready for hanging as-is. The frame measures roughly 28" x 22", with the image measuring roughly 15.5" x 9.5". Please note the pictures may not be as clear as we'd like due to the settings on the camera to reduce the glare. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have prior to bidding or making an offer. Thank you for checking out our listing. Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter and printmaker who is known for the intense mysticism of his paintings of animals. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an association of German Expressionist artists. Marc’s early works were painted in a naturalistic academic style, but after discovering French Impressionist painting in 1903 he adopted a more modern approach, using simplified lines and vivid colors. During a trip to Paris in 1907 he encountered the work of the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, whose vigorous, emotional brushwork profoundly influenced him. Van Gogh’s effect on Marc’s style is especially evident in Cats on a Red Cloth. In 1910 Marc met the Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was a member of a group of Expressionist artists known as the Neue Künstlervereinigung (“New Artists’ Association”). Marc joined the group in 1911 and worked closely with another member, the young painter August Macke, whose idiosyncratic use of broad areas of rich colour led Marc to experiment with similar techniques. Marc and Kandinsky split from the Neue Künstlervereinigung in 1911, forming a rival group of artists named Der Blaue Reiter. Together they edited an almanac of the same name, which was published in 1912. Having long been interested in Eastern philosophies and religions, Marc responded enthusiastically to Kandinsky’s notion that art should lay bare the spiritual essence of natural forms instead of copying their objective appearance. Kandinsky and Marc developed the idea that mystical energy is best revealed through abstraction. Marc believed that civilization destroys human awareness of the spiritual force of nature; consequently, he usually painted animals, and he was also passionately interested in the art of “primitive” peoples, children, and the mentally ill. Marc’s philosophy can be seen in works such as Blue Horses (1911), in which the powerfully simplified and rounded outlines of the horses are echoed in the rhythms of the landscape background, uniting both animals and setting into a vigorous and harmonious organic whole. In this painting, as in his other mature works, Marc used a well-defined symbology of colour: blue, yellow, and red each stood for specific emotional qualities. In 1912 Marc’s admiration for the works of the French painter Robert Delaunay and for the Italian Futurists made his art increasingly abstract. He began to use the faceted space and forms of Delaunay’s brightly colored Orphist compositions to express the brutal power and timorous fragility of various forms of animal life; an example is Tyrol (1914), a work that approaches abstraction. Marc joined the German army in 1914; he was killed in combat two years later. 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Price: 5995 USD

Location: Hudson, New York

End Time: 2024-11-26T23:40:39.000Z

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