Franz Marc, horses
By: Christian von Holst ; with essays by Karin von Maur ... [et al]. ; [translated from the German by Elizabeth Clegg and Claudia Spinner].
Contributors: Marc, Franz, 1880-1916.; Holst, Christian von.; Maur, Karin von, 1938-; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.; Busch-Reisinger Museum.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ostfildern-Ruit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Marc, Franz, 1880-1916 -- Exhibitions; Horses in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "The German painter Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse - a theme central to the fine arts - throughout his life. Co-founder, with Wassily Kandinsky, of the almanac Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider], Marc was a champion of innovation in art. In his own work he achieved symbolic, visionary images now recognized as among the icons of early Modernism." "This publication offers an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, and other works on paper, and a number of his painted postcards. Beginning with the studies made after nature in 1905-06, it embraces the series of colored horses painted after Marc's move from Munich to the Upper Bavarian village of Sindelsdorf in 1910, and ends with sketches produced shortly before Marc's death in 1916 as a soldier serving on the Western Front."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-282).
Exhibition catalog originally published in German to accompany the exhibition "Franz Marc: Pferde" at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from 27 May to 10 Sept. 2000.
English ed. published in conjuncion with the exhibition "Franz Marc: Horses" at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., from 29 Sept. 2000 to 18 Mar. 2001.
Table of contents: title: Franz Marc 1880-1916 / Andreas K. Vetter; title: "...the hoofbeat of my horses" / Christian von Holst; title: "...from looking at the world to looking through the world" : Franz Marc and Der blaue Reiter in the struggle for modernism / Karin von Maur; title: In the garden of the animals : environment and landscape in the work of Franz Marc / Andreas K. Vetter; title: A horse without a rider? Franz Marc, Reinhard Piper, and the horse in art / Andreas Schalhorn; title: The horse as a living creature : Franz Marc's horses in the eyes of a behavioral scientist / Klaus Zeeb.