Grazing Horses I
1911
Franz Marc, a founding member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, famously believed that animals held a pure, spiritual innocence that humans had long forgotten. In this lively 1911 scene, he captures a herd of reddish-brown horses peacefully grazing, their bodies almost melting into the sweeping, colorful landscape around them. Marc assigned deep spiritual meanings to his colors—using red to represent raw, earthly matter—turning a simple pasture into a profound meditation on nature's harmony just before World War I tragically cut his life short.
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