Tiger
- Date
- 1912
- Material
- Woodcut
- printed in
- Munich, Bavaria state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 7 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (20 x 24 cm)
sheet: 10 13/16 x 15 9/16 in. (27.5 x 39.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Friends Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 8:2007
NOTES
This rare woodblock print comes from one of the most important moments of Franz Marc's short career after he encountered French Cubism and Futurism. The crouching tigers in tropical vegetation are conceived through bold forceful lines and simplified rhythmic shapes. Marc used a vocabulary that was non-naturalistic in an attempt to depict the essence and spirit of the animals and to show them in unity with their natural surroundings. He ascribed a spiritual purity to wild animals that he found lacking in man.
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