![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The year 1913 is a key one for Marc: he is experimenting with a new dynamic visual language, inspired by Orphism and Futurism, which would become his leaping-off point into abstraction,’ says Keith Gill, head of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s in London. Restituted in 2021 by the city of Dusseldorf to the heirs of the Jewish banker and businessman Kurt Grawi and his wife Else, the work signifies a pivotal moment in the artist’s career following the formation of Der Blaue Reiter in 1911. With an estimate in the region of £35 million, it is set to more than double the current auction record for the artist. On 1 March The Foxes (1913), a rare and iconic painting by Marc, is offered in the 20th/21st Century Evening Sale at Christie’s. There existed a reciprocal connection between the artist and his “models” and this is why Marc could “enter” the life of animals. Keeping his work within the realm of the "ordinary," Klee also painted on a variety of everyday materials, such as burlap, cardboard panel, and muslin.As Kandinsky also wrote, ‘Everything in nature attracted him, but especially animals. Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently expressed the pain and trauma of war. Klee also applied paint in unusual ways, such as spraying and stamping during his years at the Bauhaus. Franz Marc was a leading figure of German Expressionism, and one of the key members of the influential art group, The Blue Rider. Klee constantly experimented with artistic techniques and the expressive power of color, in the process often breaking traditional or "academic" rules of painting in oils on canvas.He studied at the Academy of Applied Arts from 1977 to 1982. In his own work he often strove to achieve a similar untutored simplicity, often by employing intense colors inspired by an early trip to North Africa, and by line drawing in the unstudied manner of an everyday craftsman. Franz West was born in 1947 in Vienna, and died in 2012 in Vienna. Klee greatly admired the art of children, who seemed to create free of models or previous examples.Arrows, letters, musical notation, ancient hieroglyphs, or a few black lines standing in for a person or object frequently appear in his work, while rarely demanding a specific reading. Klee challenged traditional boundaries separating writing and visual art by exploring a new expressive, and largely abstract or poetic language of pictorial symbols and signs. ![]() In his lectures at the Bauhaus, Klee even compared the visual rhythm in drawings to the structural, percussive rhythms of a musical composition by the master of counterpoint, Johann Sebastian Bach. He naturally saw analogies between music and visual art, such as in the transient nature of musical performance and the time-based processes of painting, or in the expressive power of color as being akin to that of musical sonority. Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently. ![]()
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