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Franz marc blue horse statue11/11/2023 ![]() Based on their analysis of Marc’s painting process, as well as of the materials he used, they theorize that he came into his own as an artist during the process of making Grazing Horses IV. ![]() Through intensive research, von Hedenström and Lynette Roth, the Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, along with colleagues in the Straus Center’s analytical lab, are making new contributions to scholarship about the painting. In postwar Germany, reproductions of Grazing Horses IV were popular, and the painting came to be seen as a classic example of Marc’s colorful style. Grazing Horses IV (also known colloquially as “Red Horses”) was the artist’s first painting to be acquired by a museum (Museum Folkwang in Hagen, Germany it later was acquired by an American collector, who at first loaned and then gave it to the Busch-Reisinger Museum). The artist was killed while serving in World War I at age 36.ĭespite Marc’s untimely death, his works have enjoyed great success. Over the past few months, she has been studying Grazing Horses IV in preparation for a loan to Germany’s Franz Marc Museum, which is hosting a trilogy of exhibitions of Marc’s works to commemorate the centenary year of his death. And as if confronting a beloved icon from childhood weren’t enough, von Hedenström recently had the opportunity to work directly with the painting. Last fall, just after beginning a fellowship in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, she was surprised to come face to face with the original 1911 work here at the Harvard Art Museums. ![]() As a child in Germany, Andrea von Hedenström had a print of German expressionist painter Franz Marc’s Grazing Horses IV hanging in her bedroom.
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