''Indersdorf'' is an oil on canvas painting by
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 b ...
executed in 1904. It is in the collection of the
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
The Lenbachhaus () is a building housing an art museum in Munich's ''Kunstareal''.
The building
The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between 1887 and 1891 by Gabriel von Seidl and was expand ...
in
Munich.
History
The painting was made in 1904 at a time when
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 b ...
stayed several times in
Markt Indersdorf
Markt Indersdorf is a municipality in the district of Dachau in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Markt Indersdorf is located on the Glonn River. The Glonn divides the two main towns Markt Indersdorf and Kloster(monastery) Indersdorf. Markt Indersdo ...
in the
Dachau district. The previous year Marc had done a trip to
France where he met the work of the
impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
painters for the first time. After his return he left his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was now searching for his own style with lighter and stronger colors.
Description
The upper half of the painting mainly shows Gasthaus zur Mühle in the village of Glonn, a district of Markt Indersdorf, and the neighboring buildings. In the foreground flows the river Glonn, over which a bridge crosses on the right edge of the picture. Elongated flower beds stretch between the inn and the river. Colorful clothes hang on a fence between the flower beds and the street. The facade of the inn, the fence and the clothes are reflected in the moving water.
It is one of the few paintings in Marc that depicts a particular locality in the landscape.
[''Franz Marc 1880-1916''. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1980 (German), ISBN 3-88645-005-8]
See also
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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 Kunstha ...
References
External links
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1904 paintings
Paintings by Franz Marc
Paintings in the Lenbachhaus