Franz Marc's The Birth of Horses (1913) | German Expressionist Art Pri

Ready-to-hang: Includes hanging kit, ready to hang directly on the wall.
Frame Material: Durable pine wood.
Frame Measurements: 20-25mm (0.79"-0.98") thick, 10-14mm (0.4"-0.6") wide.
Paper Weight: 200 gsm (80 lb), thickness: 0.22 mm (8.7 mils).
Paper Finishing: Matte, smooth, non-reflective surface.
Protection: Shatterproof plexiglass protects the poster.
Sustainable Paper: FSC-certified materials or equivalent.

This is the powerfully expressive color woodcut, The Birth of Horses (1913), by the German artist Franz Marc, a foundational figure of the German Expressionist movement. The artwork is a dynamic and semi-abstract composition, where the forms of horses are fractured and fused with a landscape of swirling, energetic lines. Using a limited but symbolically charged palette of black, green, brown, and red, Marc conveys not a literal scene, but the primal, cosmic energy of creation, a signature theme of his work with the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group.

Historical Tidbit

For Franz Marc, color was a spiritual language used to express the hidden truths of nature. He developed a specific color theory where blue represented the masculine, spiritual principle; yellow was the gentle, feminine principle; and red signified the brutal, heavy force of raw matter. In this print, the dominant green (a mix of blue and yellow) represents the harmony of nature born from the spiritual and the gentle. The flashes of red, however, symbolize the violent, material world into which these pure animal spirits are being born. For Marc, this wasn't just a picture of horses; it was a symbolic diagram of the struggle between spiritual harmony and earthly chaos.

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