Composition with Animals II
1913
Franz Marc believed animals possessed a purity and innocence that humans had lost, and he wanted to paint their 'inner life' rather than just their appearance. Here, a white creature with majestic, sweeping horns floats above a red, deer-like figure, both dissolving into a chaotic dance of sharp triangles and sweeping arcs. Marc famously assigned spiritual meanings to colors—blue for the masculine principle, yellow for feminine joy—turning this scene into a mystical equation of form and hue. Created in 1913, just a year before his tragic death in World War I, this piece shows his desperate leap toward total abstraction, trying to capture the energy of the universe itself.
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