Franz Marc - lying dog in the snow

How does a dog see the world? Marc's "Russi" hugs a bed of snow peacefully. The artist had to work on her fur for a long time until "a pure color relationship between the yellow, the cold white of the snow and the blue was reached in it". For Marc, who founded the Blue Rider's artist association with Kandinsky and Macke, animals embodied the idea of ​​pure and original life in harmony with nature - an all -encompassing congruence of creation.

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