Franz Marc, horses

the long version

"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." "This publication offers an overview of Marc's paintings, drawings, and other works on paper, and a number of his painted postcards. Beginning with the studies made after nature in 1905-06, it embraces the series of colored horses painted after Marc's move from Munich to the Upper Bavarian village of Sindelsdorf in 1910, and ends with sketches produced shortly before Marc's death in 1916 as a soldier serving on the Western Front."--Jacket.