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Franz Marc / Wild Boars

Wild Boars

1913 · Oil on cardboard

Two wild boars merge into the crystalline, fractured forest around them, Marc dissolving animal and landscape into a single pulsing rhythm of colour.

LocationCologne, Germany
Genreanimal art
Dimensions73.5 × 57.5 cm

Why it matters

A blue boar with white tusks sleeps among green and yellow plants, with an orange sow above. The animals and plants form a rotating spiral suggesting strength and wildness.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1913.
  • It is painted on cardboard, later mounted on canvas.
  • It is also known as Boar and Sow.

Based on the German Wikipedia article Wildschweine (Franz Marc) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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