![]() ![]() The meaning of the lion is perhaps more ambiguous, but in his elegant, calm yet alert pose, he seems to be serving as guardian for his human counterpart. Magritte was thirteen years old when his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the river, so we can probably safely assume that the angel in black on the bridge, contemplating the void, is Magritte. René Magritte, Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness), 1940īelgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) painted Le Mal du Pays at an unsettled time in his life-the Germans had invaded his home town, and he was having marital problems. His animal portraits are dignified and convey a sense of respect and wonder for his subjects. The Swiss artist Karl Joseph Brodtmann (1787-1862) was an expert 19th-century lithographer whose natural history studies capture a wealth of detail. Lithograph from Nâturhistorische Bilder Galerie aus dem Theirreiche They are quite varied in style and tone, but I believe they all say something interesting or profound about the way we see and relate to animals. Revisiting Franz Marc’s animals brought to mind other images of animals in art that have caught my attention over the years. ![]() Stadtische Galerie em Lenbochhaus, Munich Sadly, while waiting for the paperwork on his artists’ military exemption to come through, Marc was killed by a shell splinter to the head in the Battle of Verdun.įranz Marc, Blaues Pferd I ( Blue Horse I), 1911 Marc’s paintings of animals, mostly horses, had fluidity, grace and deep emotion. They were a diverse group stylistically, but they held common beliefs in the spiritual nature of art, the link between visual art and music and the symbolic use of color to depict emotion. The other day, while cleaning out a drawer, I came across a post card of this exuberant painting by the German painter Franz Marc (1880-1916.) In 1911, Franz Marc, along with August Macke and Wassily Kandinsky, founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).
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