The Bewitched Mill
Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)
1913
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Among the German Expressionists, artists who used strong color and exaggerated form to express emotional content, Franz Marc was especially committed to his empathic interest in the life of animals. "Is there a more mysterious idea," he asked, "than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?" Beginning in 1905, he devoted himself to representing the world with a fresh and purifying vision. Marc painted The Bewitched Mill following a sojourn to the Italian town of Merano in the southern Tirol. The work's title refers to the "magical" harmony he sensed there between human life, represented by the houses and mill on the left, and nature, embodied by the lyrical region of trees and animals on the right.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- Without frame: 130.2 × 90.8 cm (51 5/16 × 35 3/4 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 24 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist.
- Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), 1913; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.
Exhibitions
- Chicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19-October 22, 1922.
- Chicago, Art Institute, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931-January 17, 1932.
- Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Expressionism and Related Movements, January 26-February 28, 1939, no cat. Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Contemporary German Art, November 2-December 9, 1939.
- New York, Buchholz Gallery, Franz Marc, November 11-December 7, 1940, n. pag..
- Cambridge, Mass., Germanic Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition, February 4-March 4, 1941.
- Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Survey of Modern European Painting, March 3-31, 1946, no cat. Minneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, October 23-November 27, 1950.
- Chicago, Main Street Bookstore, April 14-30, 1952.
- Chicago, University of Chicago, May 6, 1952-June 6, 1952.
- Chicago, University of Chicago, August 22-25, 1952.
- New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, September 20-October 1954.
- Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, November 1-December 11, 1954.
- New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Der Blaue Reiter, December 7, 1954-January 8, 1955.
- Cambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Artists of the Blaue Reiter, January 21-February 24, 1955.
- Kansas City, William Rockwell Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Some Points of View in Modern Painting, February 10-March 10, 1957.
- Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, February 10-March 9, 1961.
- Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Franz Marc, August 10-October 13, 1963.
- Hamburg, Kunstverein, Franz Marc: Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, November 9, 1963-January 5, 1964.
- Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Franz Marc: Pioneer of Spiritual Abstraction, December 5, 1979-February 3, 1980; traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, February 23-April 13, 1980, and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, May 4-June 15, 1980.
- Niigata, Japan, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, April 20-May 29, 1994; traveled to Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994, and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6-September 25, 1994.
- Berlin, Brücke Museum, Der Blaue Reiter und seine Künstler, October 3, 1998-January 3, 1999 (color ill.); traveled to Tubingen, Kunsthalle, January 16, 1999-March 28, 1999.
- Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das XX. Jahrhundert: ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, September 4, 1999-January 9, 2000 (color ill.).
- Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Franz Marc: The Retrospective, September 17, 2005–January 8, 2006.
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no. New York, Neue Galerie, Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909–1914, Oct. 4, 2018–Jan. 21, 2019; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Mar. 6–June 17, 2019.
