Franz Marc
German, 1880­1916
The Bewitched Mill
1913
Oil on canvas
130.2 x 91.1 cm
Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection, 1931.522

Marc liked to paint animals in nature. How many animals can you find playing in the waterfall? Waterfalls also work. See how this fall makes the mill wheel turn. 

Marc was one of the original blaue reiter (blue rider) artists, a group named because Marc often included a blue horse in his paintings. The blue rider artists were part of a larger group of German artists who used bright, contrasting colors to express feeling and emotion, and were known as the German Expressionists. What mood do these colors express?