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Tiere in der Landschaft (Drei K„lber und ein Pferd) watercolour and pencil on paper 6 3/8 x 81/2 in. (16.2 x 21.6 cm.) Executed in 1913 PROVENANCE Maria Marc, the artist's wife. With Buchholz Galley [Curt Valentin], New York. Caroline & Erwin Swann, New York; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1969, lot 66. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1982, lot 192 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. C-137). LITERATURE A.J. Schardt, Franz Marc, vol. II, 1913-36, Berlin, 1936. K. Lankheit, Franz Marc, Katalog der Werke, Cologne, 1970, no. 651 (illustrated p. 207). EXHIBITION Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Franz Marc - Ged„chtnisausstellung, March-April 1936, no. 91. New York, Gallery of Modern Art, The Pleasure of the Eye - The Collection of Caroline & Erwin Swann, 1964-65, no. 52. This exhibition later travelled to Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Kansas City, University of Michigan and Dayton. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Il Cavaliere Azzurro - Der Blaue Reiter, March-May 1971. NOTES Animals were for Marc superior to human beings in the respect that they responded to and lived closer to nature than modern man. Inspired by Nietzsche in the seeking of a new age of the spirit, which would be diametrically opposed to the empirical and materialist ethics of newly industrialised Germany, Franz Marc's portend for this new era was the animal. Marc maintained that the serenity of animals and their relationship with nature held the key to man's own evolution and spiritual salvation. As Tiere in der Landschaft shows, it was essentially the mystic connection between animals and the universe that Marc sought to express in his art. 'I am seeking a feeling for the organic rhythm in all things' he wrote, 'a pantheistic emphathy into the shaking and flowing of the blood in nature, in trees, in animals, in the air... I see no happier means to the 'animalisation of art', as I would like to call it, than the animal picture. Therefore I treat it accordingly' (Franz Marc, Schriften, K. Lankheit (ed.), Cologne, 1978, p. 98).