Like no other artist, Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse--a central topic in the fine arts--as his life's work. As a painter and co-founder of the "Blaue Reiter" he created symbolic, visionary images which today stand among the icons of modernism. This publication presents an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, gouaches and a number of famous postcards--from his nature studies of 1905 and 1906 to the sketches he made on the eve of World War I. During this short period of time, the horse motif became ...
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Like no other artist, Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse--a central topic in the fine arts--as his life's work. As a painter and co-founder of the "Blaue Reiter" he created symbolic, visionary images which today stand among the icons of modernism. This publication presents an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, gouaches and a number of famous postcards--from his nature studies of 1905 and 1906 to the sketches he made on the eve of World War I. During this short period of time, the horse motif became increasingly central, especially after Marc moved from Munich to the secluded upper Bavarian village of Sindelsdorf. With a skill for precise observation and intuitive understanding, Marc attempted an ''animalization of art, '' in which the horse became both subject and expression of the hope for better and more organic existence.
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Add this copy of Franz Marc: Horses to cart. $42.00, like new condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz.
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Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page; stamp on last page; due date card on free end page; sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine; stamp on top and bottom text blocks. A bright green cloth casebound book. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket with the title in blue and in orange down a green spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are dark blue. Pages: (4), 10-283, (1). Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. "The German painter Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse-a theme central to the fine arts-throughout his life. Co-founder, with Wassily Kandinsky, of the almanac Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider], Marc was a champion of innovation in art. In his own work he achieved symbolic, visionary images now recognized as among the icons of early Modernism." Contents are as follows: Franz Marc 1880-1916 / Andreas K. Vetter--"...the hoofbeat of my horses" / Christian von Holst--"...from looking at the world to looking through the world": Franz Marc and Der blaue Reiter in the struggle for modernism / Karin von Maur--In the garden of the animals: environment and landscape in the work of Franz Marc / Andreas K. Vetter--A horse without a rider? Franz Marc, Reinhard Piper, and the horse in art / Andreas Schalhorn--The horse as a living creature: Franz Marc's horses in the eyes of a behavioral scientist / Klaus Zeeb.
Add this copy of Franz Marc: Horses to cart. $55.00, very good condition, Sold by Midway Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
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Near fine/very good. Quarto. 11" x 9". 284pp, 231 illustrations, including 167 in color. Exhibition catalogue. A very nice copy in dust jacket. Some light edge rubbing to jacket.
Add this copy of Franz Marc: Horses to cart. $67.64, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
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Add this copy of Franz Marc: Horses to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2000.
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4to. 284 pp. Hard Cover. in Dust Jacket. Color and black and white plates throughout. Essays by Karin Von Maur, Andreas Schalhorn, Andrea K. Vetter and Klaus Zeeb. Very Good. Provenance: From the collection of Gallery Pasquale Iannetti, San Francisco. *Heavy book; shipping cost may be extra.
Add this copy of Franz Marc: Horses to cart. $135.00, like new condition, Sold by White Raven Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ypsilanti, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz Publishers, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Univ. Art Museums.
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Franz Marc. Dust Jacket Included. Celery cloth, blue titles, blue endpapers/pastedown, frontis illustration, & many color illustrations in the text; A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket; 284 pages. Size: 8.75"x11"
