![]() A Kandinsky painting in 1903 is actually called The Blue Rider. Kandinsky apparently had always been fascinated by riders on horseback (horses are symbols of power, freedom and pleasure). Franz Marc adored horses and his many paintings of them and other animals is symptomatic of the turning back to nature (an aspect of primitivism) of many early modern artists. Why the name was chosen is not entirely clear. In 1912 Marc and Kandinsky published a collection of essays on art with a woodcut cover by Kandinsky. Other artists closely involved were Paul Klee, August Macke, Gabriele Münter and Marianne von Werefkin. This was an informal association rather than a coherent group like Brücke. and in December that year held in Munich the first exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter. In 1911 Kandinsky and Marc broke with the rest of the N.K.V. The most important of these were the Russian born Wassily Kandinsky and the German, Franz Marc. A number of avant-garde artists living in Munich had founded the Neue Kunstler Vereiningung, or New Artist Association (N.K.V.). The museum in Moritzburg aims to return it.Der Blaue Reiter translates in English as The Blue Rider. The expressionist work was considered "degenerate" by the Nazi regimen, removed and confiscated from the museum and came afterwards into the possession of Hildebrand Gurlitt. A former employee of the museum recognized the coloured painting, which had previously only been documented in black and white. The former owner of the watercolour until 1937 was the Moritzburg Art and Industry Museum in Halle, and it had been acquired by its director Max Sauerlandt in 1914. The case was made known to the public in a report on November 3, 2013. The Augsburg public prosecutor's office under the direction of Reinhard Nemetz confiscated its collection in February 2012. Like the other works shown, it came from the collection of the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, which was inherited by his son Cornelius Gurlitt. On 5 November 2013 a televised press conference by art historian Meike Hoffmann, on the Schwabing Art Find ( Gurlitt Collection), presented the current painting alongside Max Liebermann's work Two Riders on the Beach, and nine other paintings. ![]() In 1913 he created the painting The Tower of Blue Horses, again with blue horses as a motif, whose whereabouts have been unknown since 1945. The blue horses push like the blue flower searching out for deliverance from earthly weight and material bondage. With the animal image he found a symbol for a “spiritualization of the world”. The colour blue stood for the male principle in his own colour theory. In all of the horse pictures of this time, Marc turns blue from an “appearance colour” to an “essential colour”. The paintings Blue Horse I and Blue Horse II were also created in 1911. The horse's bodies are held in a strong blue, the landscape and sky have red and purple tones that do not correspond to reality. The famous Marc painting from the same year, Blue Horses created after this study in oil on canvas, has the dimensions 106 × 181 cm and shows the same motif, with only the colours changed significantly. It is signed on the left edge of the picture without specifying the year. The watercolour was made on brown paper, and its edges appear irregular. The front trunk is touched by the horse in the foreground. The two knotless, white tree trunks in the foreground and background, which look like a diagonal, are striking. The outlines of the horses reflect the mountains. They stand with their heads bowed to the left, in front of a mountainous landscape, which is vaulted by a sky with white clouds. The three horses in the study, painted in a sideways position or from behind, are brown-blue in colour. The small-format work measures 12.1 × 19.6 cm. It was one of the first eleven works to be shown at a press conference by the Augsburg public prosecutor. The painting became known worldwide on the occasion of the Schwabing art discovery in November 2013. It is probably a study, which was thought to be lost, for the painting Blue Horses (1911). Horses in Landscape is a watercolour with pencil on paper by the German painter Franz Marc, executed in 1911. Painting by Franz Marc Horses in Landscape
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