The Deutsche Post issued a stamp with the painting on 9 February 2012, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Der Blaue Reiter. Marc used the blue horse motif again in several of his paintings in the following years, from 1911 to 1914. The blue color of the horse represents peace and the calm state of mind that Marc would have had when drawing it.īlue horses are symbolically bound to certain of the originating conceptions of the contemporaneous Blue Rider group: in the symbol of the horse as a vehicle of breakthrough, in the emphasis on the spirituality of the color blue, and in the idea of spirituality battling materialism. The hilly landscape in the background changes from carmine to yellow, violet, and blue to orange at the top of the picture. The foreground is in vermilion and light green, and strong dark green brushstrokes indicate vegetation. The landscape in which the foal is shown is dominated by strong contrasts of complementary colors, some of which are sharply demarcated from one another. The upper body is light blue with white spots, while the hooves and mane are painted in dark navy blue. Description Germany stamp with the painting Blue Horse I, issued in 2012 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Der Blaue ReiterĪlmost the entire height of the portrait-format painting is taken up by a foal painted in blue, facing the viewer and tilting its head slightly to one side. As a popular poster and postcard motif, it is now one of the most frequently reproduced paintings in recent art history. In 1965, it was offered to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, where it has been exhibited ever since. After the son's death, the painting came to the Bernhard Koehler Foundation.

Koehler bequeathed his art collection to his son, also named Bernhard, in 1927. It was part of the private collection of Bernhard Koehler, who supported Marc financially and received paintings from the artist in return. The painting was initially not understood and was derided or even spat upon. In the color theory of Marc and the Der Blaue Reiter group, the blue color stands for the spiritual principle. In the same year, he transcribed the sketch in great detail into a large oil painting. XXIV a pencil drawing, about the size of a postcard, entitled Young Horse in Mountain Landscape, which already shows the composition of the later painting. The painting was part of several exhibitions that Franz Marc and fellow Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky presented to the public under the name Der Blaue Reiter from late 1911 until 1914. It is one of the painter's most famous works and is part of the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich. Influence is even stronger in his another painting Deer in the Forest.Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munichīlue Horse I is an oil painting by Franz Marc completed in 1911. Cubism is used as a means of heightening realism and sentiment, the cubist Marc's Tiger shows obvious debt to Picasso's cubism and Paul Cezanne. Painted later that year, the same sense of aggression, of imminence, is repeated, albeit on a less ominous scale. Even in a seemingly innocent works like Two Cats, Blue and Yellow, Es gehört zu den bekanntesten Bildern des Malers und ist Bestandteil der Sammlung der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus in München. The Tiger is not by any means an isolated image. Blaues Pferd I ist der Bildtitel eines Gemäldes von Franz Marc (18801916). Of security, of harmony and comfort that Marc had projected in his previous works is now entirely absent. The entire works is filled with tension, with a sense of apprehension, with a presentiment of quick and sudden death. The images of this animal is made to seemĮven more powerful by the block-like construction of the forms that determine its body. Risen, its stark yellow eyes fixed upon its intended victim, this tiger, composed solely in tones of yellow and black, is ready to discharge the kinetic force of its massive and muscular bulk. Is not, by any means, the kind of dreamy, transcendent image that we saw in Blue Horse I or Yellow Cow, but rather the picture of a killer. In the midst of a landscape composed almost entirely of cubic forms rendered in bright luminous tones of red, green, violet, and orange, the animal of the title, a beast of tremendous power and size, is seen perched upon a rock. These qualities are evidenced in the painting Tiger, In content, these works demonstrate a new and disturbing sense of restlessness, of tension, of imminence and anticipation. Saw at the Sturm Gallery in Berlin in April.

In style, his paintings of 1912 clearly show the influence of the two Blaue Reiter exhibitions as well as the Futurist show which the artist

The furious activity of late 1911 and early 1912 had a considerable effect on Marc's work.

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