Reitschule (Riding School), Franz Marc

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Franz Marc, Reitschule (Riding School)
Franz Marc, Reitschule (Riding School)
Franz Marc
Reitschule (Riding School)
1913
Franz Marc, artist
1880–1916
Reitschule (Riding School), 1913
Where object was made: Germany
Material/technique: woodcut; wove paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 270 x 298 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 352 x 395 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 10 5/8 x 11 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13 7/8 x 15 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1981.0132
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts,” Mar-2010, Steve Goddard In 1913 Marc produced a major painting originally titled The Trees Show Their Rings, the Animals Their Veins, but then retitled as The Fate of the Animals. Like Riding School this painting shares a dynamic and rhythmic geometry that vibrates between animal and botanical life forms. As Richard Cork has noted, when Marc was at the front in 1915 he wrote of the painting: It is like a premonition of this war, at once horrible and stirring. I can hardly believe that I painted it. Yet it is artistically rational to paint such a picture before the war, and not simply as a dumb memory after it is all over.