id:			135691
accession number:	1959.228
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.228
updated:		2023-03-24 11:13:12.190000

Genesis II, 1914. Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916). Color woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1959.228

title:				Genesis II
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creation date:			1914
creation date earliest:		1914
creation date latest:		1914
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Lankheit p.273, n. 843 ; Schardt VII.1914.2

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CREATORS

* Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Space and Modern Art
	opening date:   1966-06-09T04:00:00
	<i>Space and Modern Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 25, 1966).

	title:		German Expressionist Graphics
	opening date:   1980-05-07T04:00:00
	<i>German Expressionist Graphics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 7-October 5, 1980).

	title:		Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925
	opening date:   1984-06-12T04:00:00
	<i>Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).

	title:		Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper
	opening date:   2018-01-14T05:00:00
	<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).

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Like other members of Der Blaue Reiter in Munich, Franz Marc focused on depicting animals, which symbolized joyous rebirth. <em>Genesis II</em> was made to illustrate the creation story in the book of Genesis; he planned to include it in an illustrated Bible. Here, three horses emerge from a background of chaos and movement. His <em>Tiger</em> is less joyous and more threatening than the bounding horses; with clenched teeth, the tiger leers toward a cowering animal behind it. After enthusiastically enlisting in the German army, Marc died in battle at Verdun, France, on March 4, 1916. His wartime death—and that of fellow artist August Macke—had a profound impact on the Munich Expressionists, whose vision of an earthly paradise quickly dissolved.
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