Animal Legend by Franz Marc

Art work details

Original Title :

Tierlegende

Year of production :

1912

Artist:

Franz Marc

Medium :

Woodcut

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Dimensions :

height: 25.5 cms; width: 28.3 cms

Credit Line :

Gift of Michael Brooks

Catalogue References:

Lankheit 831.2

Associated Groups :

Der Blaue Reiter

Tags:

Woodcut, Animals, Marc, Brooks Gift

Published in 1919 in Genius, a deluxe art review founded in the aftermath of the First World War, which had seen Europe devastated both physically and psychologically.

Although the cooler observational style of New Objectivity art would emerge in the 1920s, Marc’s Expressionist vision of a natural world in spiritual harmony with itself still appealed to a select market.

Stylised animals inhabit an ideal world uncorrupted by man, Marc’s ‘M’ monogram appearing in the image at lower left.