''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
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'') special ...
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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
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List of works by Franz Marc
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Blue Horses
''Blue Horses'' or ''Die grossen blauen Pferde'' (''The Large Blue Horses'') is a 1911 painting by German painter and printmaker Franz Marc (1880–1916).
Background
In 1911 Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and ...
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1912 paintings
Paintings by Franz Marc
Horses in art