Art Institute of Chicago
The Bewitched Mill
Franz MarcLinkedCulture matchlcp-496da5e85885
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Modern Art
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 9021
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Credit line
- Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- The artist, Munich; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, 1914 [Barnett 2022]; 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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