Franz Marc

by Marc, Franz; Maur, Karin Von; Holst, Christian Von; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

• ISBN13: 9783775709538
• ISBN10: 3775709533
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	10	(1)
James Cuno
Introduction	11	(4)
Peter Nisbet
Franz Marc 1880---1916	15	(20)
Andreas K. Vetter
``...the hoofbeat of my horses''	35	(160)
Christian von Holst
``...from looking at the world to looking through the world''	195	(24)
Franz Marc and Der Blaue Reiter in the Struggle for Modernism
Karin von Maur
In the Garden of the Animals	219	(20)
Environment and Landscape in the Work of Franz Marc
Andreas K. Vetter
A Horse without a Rider?	239	(18)
Franz Marc, Reinhard Pipe, and the Horse in Art
Andreas Schalhorn
The Horse as a Liviing Creature	257
Franz Marc's Horses in the Eyes of a Behavoiiral Scientist
Klaus Zeeb
Catalog	209	(69)
Andreas Schalhorn
Bibliography	278