Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A location field that is not a place
The location line on this record does not name a collection. It reads Lost during WWII. This catalogue prints the field as it stands, because a blank would say less and a guess would say too much. Nothing further about the work's whereabouts, then or since, is recorded here, and nothing is added on these pages.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1913. The dimensions are 200 x 130 cm. Expressionism and Futurism are the recorded style terms, German the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is blue. Abstract art, shape and colour headings accompany Animal Art > Horse.
The animal without a function
The title stacks the animals rather than putting them to work. There is no rider, no vehicle, no course and no field anywhere in the record, which places this entry in the small group here that resists the functional reading the rest of the collection invites. 16 works by this painter are assembled in this catalogue, and not one of their titles names a task for the animal.
Sources
1 references- Marc, Franz — Getty ULAN
German painter and printmaker, 1880-1916
