Wild boars (Franz Marc)
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| Wild boars |
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| Franz Marc , 1913 |
| Oil on cardboard |
| 73.5 × 57.5 cm |
| Museum Ludwig , Cologne |
Wild boars is a painting by Franz Marc from 1913. It is also known under the name Eber und Sau .
The work
The picture is painted in oil on cardboard. The cardboard was subsequently drawn up on linen. We see a blue pig in the center. More precisely a boar , because of the visible tusks painted in white . The boar's head is turned with a clear brushstroke to the lower right of the pig. A brook in orange / red tones can be seen above the boar . Below the boar we see various plants in green and yellow, in which the boar and brook have settled. The boar's eye is closed and the animal appears to be sleeping.
The picture is completed at the top left by shaded orange-red to purple and at the top right by a leaf shape. Suggested semicircular lines and partially oval lines lead to geometric structures as the basis of the picture composition. If we now capture the entire picture again from a little distance, the abstraction of the animal and plant bodies from the natural form becomes clear.
Animals and plants are parts of a rotating, spiral-shaped movement that begins with the tusks of the boar and develops outward. This spiral movement, which opens outwards, suggests strength and ferocity. The lines of movement in the neck area also give an impression of the tension in this spiral.
The colors of the picture support this movement by including the entire color wheel.
interpretation
Franz Marc was one of the first artists to create a new creative artistic expression with his pictures, even though the socio-cultural view as well as the official art business and art trade were against his art. Franz Marc wanted to see the world "through the eyes of animals".
He “subordinated the motif he took from nature to a strict formal principle, because he wanted to depict the great solitude of nature and the animal that lives in it, in order to create the rule of eternity as an artistic statement. ... So it is no longer surprising when we see strange colors at first glance. They are justified in such visionary poetry. Shapes and colors become the means of expression of a spiritual-painterly “world of ideas.
Provenance
- first previous owner: Halle (Saale), Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, duration 1924–1937,
- second previous owner: Berlin, private collection,
- third previous owner: Berlin, trade, Galerie Gerd Rosen,
- fourth previous owner: Cologne, trade, Galerie Änne Abels,
- fifth previous owner: Cologne, private collection, car dealership Jakob Fleischhauer, duration until 1954,
- previous administrator: Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, inventory no. WRM 2955, gift access, 1954, duration 1954–1976.
literature
- Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy (Ed.): Franz Marc Museum . Prestel 2013.
- Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy: Franz Marc . Klinkhardt and & Biermann 2013.
- Susanna Partsch : Marc . Taschen, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8228-5585-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nadja von Tilinsky: Franz Marc. Dortmund 1994, p. 10.
- ↑ Helmut Lobeck: From Lochner to the present. Cologne 1959, p. 75.
- ↑ https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj05010433?medium=rba_000967 , accessed on February 9, 2019.