Tiger

Franz Marc

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Animals played a central role in the art of Franz Marc, who attempted to capture their spiritual purity through bold, stylized forms like those of the tiger depicted in this woodcut. A close associate of Vasily Kandinsky’s, he cultivated a dynamic Expressionist style that used rhythmic patterns of color and line to evoke movement. In a short text he wrote in 1910, Marc stated that he was trying to “achieve a pantheistic empathy with the throbbing and racing of the blood in nature, in trees, in animals, in the air.” Marc died four years after making this print, in World War I.

Caption

Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916). Tiger, 1912. Woodcut on Eastern laid paper, image: 7 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (20 × 24 cm) sheet: 12 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (30.8 × 40.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 52.2.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Tiger

Date

1912

Geography

Place made: Germany

Medium

Woodcut on Eastern laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

image: 7 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (20 × 24 cm) sheet: 12 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (30.8 × 40.8 cm)

Signatures

Lower right in block: "M"

Inscriptions

Lower left in graphite: "1912 TIGER" Verso following stamp in graphite: "Maria Marc"

Markings

Verso stamped: "Handdruck vom Originalholzstock bestätigt:" in rectangle (Lugt 1782b)

Credit Line

Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund

Accession Number

52.2.2

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