Fuchs (Franz Marc, 1911)

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Fuchs also: Blauschwarzer Fuchs, Blauer Fuchs (Franz Marc)
Fox
also: blue-black fox, blue fox
Franz Marc , 1911
Oil on canvas
50 × 63.5 cm
From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal

Fuchs , alternatively Blauschwarzer Fuchs or Blauer Fuchs , is a painting by the German expressionist painter Franz Marc (1880–1916) from 1911. It has been part of the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal since 1952 .

description

Marc's work is executed in oil on canvas and has the format 50 × 63.5 cm. It has inventory number G 0686 in the Von der Heydt Museum collection. There is no signature on the front of the work, it is labeled "Marc" on the back.

The painting shows in the central position of the picture a fox turned to the left , lying in a relaxed, half-curled pose on the floor. A tree trunk and some leaves are indicated on the right side of the painting. The strong coloring of the background as an abstract landscape with strong complementary contrasts of blue / yellow and orange / red / green is reminiscent of the after-effects of French Fauvism and its color conception on German Expressionism. According to the painting index, it shows a fox lying on a wall.

In the period before the First World War, Franz Marc often painted foxes. Among them is the painting Füchse ( Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf ) in cubist style with two animals from 1913, in which he had further developed abstraction compared to earlier works.

Origin and classification

The work was created in July 1911 in August Macke's studio in Bonn, when Marc was on his way back from England. A few months later, on December 18, 1911, the editorial and exhibition group Der Blaue Reiter , founded by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky , had its first exhibition in Munich. Marc quickly created the fox together with the work Red Dog on the same canvas. The fox was given as a present to the curator of the Barmer Kunstverein , Richart Reiche , who was currently exhibiting Marc's works. Reiche was able to find a buyer for the Red Dog . These two paintings belong to the early group of animal depictions in which pure colors were used. Pure colors in the function of symbols or the so-called essential colors. With the colors red / yellow / blue ( primary colors ) and orange / green / violet ( secondary colors ) Marc used the system of spectral colors as a basis in this picture .

The fox is a frequently used example to illustrate the “ color-in-itself contrast ”.

  • More similar works by Franz Marc

  • Red dog , 1911

  • Two cats, blue and yellow , 1912

  • Blue horse , 1912

  • The tiger , 1912

  • Foxes , 1913

Provenance and exhibitions

The provenance of the painting is documented as follows: The work came into the possession of the Von der Heydt Museum in 1952 through a donation by Eduard von der Heydt from a collection that his father August von der Heydt had already started.

  • 1916: Franz Marc: Memorial Exhibition , Munich (New Secession)
  • 1947: Exhibition of expressionist painting , Wuppertal, Städtisches Museum.
  • 1949: The Blue Rider. Der Weg from 1908 to 1914. , Munich, Städtische Galerie, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
  • 1955: Franz Marc , Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts .
  • 1963: Franz Marc , Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus .
  • 1963/64: Franz Marc , Hamburg, Kunstverein.
  • 1984: The West German Impulse , Wuppertal.
  • 1986–89: From Marées to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal , Ascona, Bern and Madrid (traveling exhibition).
  • 1999: The Blue Rider and the New Image , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
  • 2005: Franz Marc: the retrospective , Munich.
  • 2008: The expressionist impulse in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal
  • 2009: Marc, Macke and Delaunay. The beauty of a breaking world (1910–1914) in the Sprengel Museum Hannover (March 29th to August 9th)
  • 2009/2010: Exposition Fauves et Expressionnistes at the Musée Marmottan Monet (October 28, 2009 to February 20, 2010)
  • 2010: Retour de Paris Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal (April 2nd to August 1st)
  • 2012: Gauguin: y el viaje a lo exotico , Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza , Madrid.
  • 2013: “Heaven on Earth” in Wuppertal in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal (April 14th to September 1st)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erika Günther: Guide to paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 157 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Uta Laxner-Gerlach: Catalog of the paintings of the 20th century . Ed .: From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Das Museum, Wuppertal 1981, p. 132 .
  3. ^ Franz Marc: 'Fuchs' - in the heart of things (1911) on mahagoni-magazin.de, accessed March 2015
  4. ↑ a b c d e f From the painting card index; with the kind support of the head of the Von der Heydt Museum library in March 2015
  5. ↑ Brigitte Roßbeck: Franz Marc: The dreams and life - biography. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-641-15861-3 ( online )
  6. ^ After Lankheit , 1970 in Uta Laxner-Gerlach: Catalog of the paintings of the 20th century.
  7. ↑ Marc, Macke and Delaunay. The Beauty of a Shattering World (1910–1914) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sprengel-museum.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sprengel-museum.de
  8. ↑ Musée Marmottan Monet - Exposition Fauves et Expressionnistes on media.artabsolument.com (PDF)
  9. ↑ From the collection, unfinished on engels-kultur.de
  10. ↑ “Heaven on Earth” in Wuppertal on rp-online.de