''Two Women on the Hillside'' is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1906 by German painter
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 ...
. It is part of the
Bavarian State Painting Collections and is on a permanent loan at the
Franz Marc Museum
The Franz Marc Museum is a museum located in Kochel am See, Upper Bavaria, dedicated to German Expressionist painter Franz Marc. The museum shows paintings by Franz Marc, and also works of art of his contemporaries and other important artists of ...
in
Kochel am See.
History
Marc met the fellow painters
Marie Schnür and
Maria Franck
Maria Kristina Franck (2 February 1771 – 17 April 1847) was a Swedish actress and drama teacher. She was a member of the pioneer generation of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and belonged to the first stars of the theater. She has been referred t ...
in 1905, who would both later become his wives. He spent the summer of 1906 in Kochel. He painted the women at outdoors on an alpine pasture. He first made the current small oil sketch, from which he later painted a large-format oil painting. On August 1, 1906, he wrote to
Maria Franck
Maria Kristina Franck (2 February 1771 – 17 April 1847) was a Swedish actress and drama teacher. She was a member of the pioneer generation of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and belonged to the first stars of the theater. She has been referred t ...
: “The picture of you two has already been drawn.” Later he cut up the large painting. The remainder of this is the portrait of Maria Marc in the Murnau Castle Museum.
In 1985 the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen acquired the painting from the estate of
Maria Marc, née Franck. It hangs on permanent loan in the
Franz Marc Museum
The Franz Marc Museum is a museum located in Kochel am See, Upper Bavaria, dedicated to German Expressionist painter Franz Marc. The museum shows paintings by Franz Marc, and also works of art of his contemporaries and other important artists of ...
in
Kochel am See.
Description
The painting is 15.5 cm high and 24.7 cm wide. It was painted with oil paint on canvas and mounted on cardboard.
[Susanna Partsch, ''Franz Marc'', Taschen, Cologne 2001, pp. 11 ISBN 3-8228-5585-5]
The picture shows the two women on a mountain meadow. Marie Schnür is sitting in the foreground in a white dress and a blue jacket and looks back at Maria Franck, who is lying in the meadow with a hat on her head, both dressed in white. Maria covers her face with her hand against the sun shining in front and seems to be reading a book lying in front of her on the meadow. The mountains of the Bavarian Prealps are shown in the background .
The light colors are applied with a broad brushstroke. Instead of a lifelike reproduction, Marc captures the mood of the scene. The work shows the influence of both 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 ...
and
post-impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
styles of painting.
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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1906 paintings
Paintings by Franz Marc