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Franz Marc: The "Animalization of Art
"I try to increase my feeling for the organic rhythm of all things, try to empathize pantheistically with the trembling and running of the blood in nature, in the trees, in the animals, in the air.
Franz Marc, born on February 8, 1880 in Munich, began his artistic career after dropping out of his theological studies. After his initially naturalistic and later impressionistically oriented painting, he experimented with stylistic elements of various art movements such as Kubismus, Futurism and Fauvism. His well-known paintings like "Blue Horse" (1911) or "Yellow Cow" (1911) show his concentration on animal painting, in which he saw a means of expression for the liveliness of nature and the soul life of the animal.
Colour symbolism, transparent colour surfaces and an increasingly abstract mode of representation characterise Marc's work, which made him a co-founder of Expressionism. Together with Wassily Kandinsky he founded the Blauer Reiter artists' association, which became the forerunner of 20th century modern art. Marc died in Verdun on March 4, 1916 as a soldier of the First World War.
Franz Marc: The "Animalization of Art
"I try to increase my feeling for the organic rhythm of all things, try to empathize pantheistically with the trembling and running of the blood in nature, in the trees, in the animals, in the air.
Franz Marc, born on February 8, 1880 in Munich, began his artistic career after dropping out of his theological studies. After his initially naturalistic and later impressionistically oriented painting, he experimented with stylistic elements of various art movements such as Kubismus, Futurism and Fauvism. His well-known paintings like "Blue Horse" (1911) or "Yellow Cow" (1911) show his concentration on animal painting, in which he saw a means of expression for the liveliness of nature and the soul life of the animal.
Colour symbolism, transparent colour surfaces and an increasingly abstract mode of representation characterise Marc's work, which made him a co-founder of Expressionism. Together with Wassily Kandinsky he founded the Blauer Reiter artists' association, which became the forerunner of 20th century modern art. Marc died in Verdun on March 4, 1916 as a soldier of the First World War.