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Little Blue Horse
''Little Blue Horse'' is an oil on canvas painting by German Expressionist painter Franz Marc, from 1912. Description The has the dimensions of 57.5 x 73 centimeters. It is in the collection of the Saarland Museum, in Saarbrücken. The picture depicts a young horse in the foreground, standing with its legs in a balanced position. There is a small stream at his side, and behind the horse, we can see a flowering plant in front of a mountainous landscape. The horse has a blue color, while the mountains and the sky alternate between the red, yellow, blue and orange colours. Provenance Marc made the painting for Walterchen, the son of his friend and colleague August Macke, a fact that the inscription at his top right demonstrates. In 1956, the museum director Rudolf Bornschein acquired the painting for the Saarbrücker Stadt-und Heimatmuseum, which in 1968 merged with the Moderne Galerie. ''Little Blue Horse'' is one of the Saarbrücker Sammlung's most famous works. See also * List ...
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Franz Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. His mature works mostly depict animals, and are known for bright colouration. He was drafted to serve in the German Army at the beginning of World War I, and died two years later at the Battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, the Nazis named him a degenerate artist as part of their suppression of modern art. However, most of his work survived World War II, securing his legacy. His work is now exhibited in many eminent galleries and museums. When up for auction, his major paintings attract large sums, with a record of £42,654,500 for ''Die Füchse'' (''The Foxes''). Early life Franz Marc was born in 1880 in Munich, the then capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His father, Wilhelm Ma ...
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Saarland Museum
The Saarland Museum is an art museum in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. It is spread across three sites, each with a different specialism. Museum in the Palace Church The Museum in the Palace Church (''Museum in der Schlosskirche'') specialises in religious works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. It is also notable for its baroque princely graves and the colourful windows by Georg Meistermann. In 2004 the Palace Church was modernised, and connected to the Saarland Museum's ''Old Collection'' by a glass construction on the south side of the Choir (architecture), choir. Old Collection The Old Collection (''Alte Sammlung'') is located in the Kreisständehaus, next to Saarbrücken Palace, and concentrates on artists from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Landscape painting, Landscapes and still lifes by 16th- and 17th-century painters such as Abraham Mignon, Joos de Momper and Gillis van Coninxloo are presented alongside works by later artists such as Johann Christian ...
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Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is Saarland's administrative, commercial and cultural centre and is next to the French border. The modern city of Saarbrücken was created in 1909 by the merger of three towns, Saarbrücken, St. Johann, and Malstatt-Burbach. It was the industrial and transport centre of the Saar coal basin. Products included iron and steel, sugar, beer, pottery, optical instruments, machinery, and construction materials. Historic landmarks in the city include the stone bridge across the Saar (1546), the Gothic church of St. Arnual, the 18th-century Saarbrücken Castle, and the old part of the town, the ''Sankt Johanner Markt'' (Market of St. Johann). In the 20th century, Saarbrücken was twice separated from Germany: from 1920 to 1935 as capit ...
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August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly active time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. As an artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War. Early life August Robert Ludwig Macke was born in Germany on 3 January 1887, in Meschede, Westphalia. He was the only son of August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845–1904), a building contractor and amateur artist, and his wife, Maria Florentine, née Adolph, (1848–1922), who came from a farming family ...
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List Of Works By Franz Marc
This article lists a selection of notable works created by Franz Marc. The listing follows the book ''Franz Marc: 1880-1916''. Paintings Museums *Art Institute of Chicago *Detroit Institute of Arts *Franz Marc Museum, Kochel *Hamburger Kunsthalle *Harvard Art Museums *Kunsthalle Bremen *Kunstmuseum Basel *Kunstmuseum Bern *Kunsthalle Mannheim *Lenbachhaus, Munich *Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam *Museum Folkwang, Essen *Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf *Museum Ludwig, Cologne *National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. *Neue Pinakothek, Munich *Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena *Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich *Pushkin Museum, Moscow *Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken *Saint Louis Art Museum *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art *:de:Schwabinger Kunstfund, Munich *Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City *Sprengel Museum, Hanover *Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe *Staatsgalerie Stuttgart *Städel Museum *The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. *Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid *V ...
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