Story of a picture: The tower of the blue horses, Franz Marc, 1913
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Story of a picture: The tower of the blue horses, Franz Marc, 1913 |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karlheinz mouth |
| script |
Rolf Liebmann Karlheinz Mund |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Christian Lehmann |
| cut | Angela Wendt |
History of an image: The Tower of the Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1913 is a documentary film made by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Karlheinz Mund in 1989 .
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The alleged early version of the painting The Tower of the Blue Horses , which appeared in the Ciurlionis Museum in Kaunas in the 1980s, promises new information that is being tried to clarify with experts from the GDR . This find encourages documentary filmmakers to present the background and conditions for the creation of this famous painting and to classify the painter and the picture historically.
Franz Marc , the romanticist among the German Expressionists , was born in Munich in 1880 , his life ended in the First World War . Even the rulers of the German Empire are despised of the new art, but Franz Marc returns his contempt, calling himself a “savage” in Germany. He is sure that what he paints is necessary.
Marc leaves Munich and moves to Sindelsdorf in Upper Bavaria , an area he calls a blue landscape. The animal in this landscape in particular preoccupies him so intensely that he did not draw anything else for years. The painter and his wife found accommodation for the next five years in a carpenter's house. Here, together with Wassily Kandinsky , he founds the editorial community Der Blaue Reiter . Marc also paints in winter, warmly dressed, in the attic of his farmhouse, where in 1913 the picture “The Tower of the Blue Horses” was created.
After the outbreak of the First World War he went to the Western Front as an officer . He wasn't one of those who cheered the war, but he honestly believed that this war was a way out to unite Europe. On March 4, 1916, he fell at the front. In 1916 the city of Munich opened a memorial exhibition for Franz Marc. The tower of the blue horses was acquired by the Nationalgalerie Berlin in 1919 and exhibited in its new department in the former Kronprinzenpalais in a place of honor.
On the other hand, it was given a shame in the 1937 exhibition Degenerate Art . Nearly 17,000 paintings, graphics and sculptures, designated as corrosive, were sorted out by the National Socialists from museums, confiscated and earmarked for sale abroad, including 130 works by Franz Marc. In Munich there is a protest against the whereabouts of the picture The Tower of the Blue Horses in the agitation exhibition. The regiment in which Marc served, in particular, is very active until the plant is left behind. It is seen for the last time in 1945 in the official seat of the Prime Minister of Prussia Hermann Göring , the former Prussian House of Representatives . The original has been lost to this day.
Production and publication
History of an image: The Tower of Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1913 was approved by the CISA document under the working title Tower of Blue Horses on ORWO -Color, with some black and white film - sequences and photographs from archive footage, filmed.
The first demonstrable performance took place on March 9, 1989 in the series offers at the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The film was shown for the first time on May 18, 1990 in the 1st program of the DFF .
Web links
- History of a picture: The tower of the blue horses, Franz Marc, 1913 at filmportal.de
- History of an image: The tower of the blue horses, Franz Marc, 1913 on DEFA foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 4, 1989, p. 12
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 18, 1990, p. 16