{"data":{"id":9021,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/9021","is_boosted":false,"title":"The Bewitched Mill","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAwAFAPMAAD1ta11eS15XVlVdWW1zYaVoYWBognd3gJaNiIuUmZiYmomfqrG4tbe7t7C5vgAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAADAAUAAAQL0CSi2CgtICfAOhEAOw==","width":6100,"height":8830,"alt_text":"Vibrantly colored geometric painting of a central white and blue waterfall with birds visible through it. A stylized red jungle cat and black wild boar drink at bottom right. Red water wheel at left, angular blue and white cityscape top at left, tree top at right."},"main_reference_number":"1931.522","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1913,"date_end":1913,"date_display":"1913","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Franz Marc\nGerman, 1880\u20131916","place_of_origin":"Germany","description":"<p>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. &quot;Is there a more mysterious idea,&quot; he asked, &quot;than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?&quot; Beginning in 1905, he devoted himself to representing the world with a fresh and purifying vision. Marc painted <em>The Bewitched Mill<\/em> following a sojourn to the Italian town of Merano in the southern Tirol. The work's title refers to the &quot;magical&quot; 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.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Among the German Expressionists, who used strong color and exaggerated form to express emotional content, Franz Marc was unique in his empathic interest in animal life. He painted this work following a sojourn to the Italian town of Merano. Its 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.","dimensions":"Without frame: 130.2 \u00d7 90.8 cm (51 5\/16 \u00d7 35 3\/4 in.); 130.2 \u00d7 91.2 cm (51 1\/4 \u00d7 35 7\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":90,"height":130,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Without frame"},{"depth":null,"width":91,"height":130,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"inscribed, l.l.: \"M.\"","credit_line":"Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Cubists and Post-impressionism (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1919), p. 115. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), cat. 50. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 33 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), cat. 12 (ill.).\n\nBulliet, C. J., \u201cThe Eddy Gift to Chicago,\u201d Creative Art 10 (March 1932), pp. 213, 215 (ill.). \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), cat. 757.\n\nRich, Daniel Catton, \u201cGerman Art in Chicago,\u201d American-German Review 1 (June 1935), pp. 37 (ill.), 38.\n\nSchardt, Alois Jakob, Franz Marc (Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1936), p. 164, cat. 1-1913-3. \n\nInstitute of Contemporary Art, Contemporary German Art, exh. cat. (Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1939), cat. 40a.\n\nMilliken, William M., \u201cExpressionism Exhibited,\u201d Art News 37, 20 (February 11, 1939), pp. 7, 8 (ill.). \n\nGoldwater, Robert, Franz Marc, exh. cat. (New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1940), n. pag., cat. 16 (ill.).\n\nUniversity Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950), cat. 81.\n\nCurt Valentin Gallery, Der Blaue Reiter, exh. cat. (New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1954), cat. 44.\n\nBusch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Artists of the Blaue Reiter, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1955), cat. 54 (ill.), p. 11.\n\nSelz, Peter, German Expressionist Painting (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957), pl. 101.\n\nWilliam Rockwell Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Some Points of View in Modern Painting, exh. cat. (Kansas City: William Rockwell Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, 1957), p. 4, cat. 13.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 273. \n\nColumbus Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, exh. cat. (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1961), cat. 53.\n\nKunstverein in Hamburg, Franz Marc: Gem\u00e4lde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, exh. cat. (Hamburg: Kunstverein, 1963), cat. 46 (ill.). \n\nSt\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Franz Marc, exh. cat. (Munich: St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1963), cat. 152.\n\nSpeyer, A. James, \u201cTwentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (September 1966), p. 225.\n\nLankheit, Klaus, Franz Marc: Katalog der Werke (Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1970), p. 69, cat. 196 (ill.).\n\nJ\u00e4hner, Horst, Franz Marc: Malerei und Werk (Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1972), pp. 19, pl. 10 (ill.), 32.\n\nLankheit, Klaus, Franz Marc: Sein Leben und seine Kunst (Cologne: DuMont, 1976), p. 161, color pl. 30.\n\nRosenthal, Mark, Franz Marc: 1880-1916, exh. cat. (Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1979), cat. 30.\n\n___, \u201cGallery Programs\/Exhibitions: Franz Marc: Pioneer of Spiritual Abstraction,\u201d University Art Museum Berkeley Calendar (December 1979), p. 2 (ill.).\n\nGollek, Rosel, ed., Franz Marc, 1880-1916, exh. cat. (Munich: St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Prestel-Verlag, 1980), p. 83 (ill.).\n\nSpeyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 53, no. 2E11.\n\nTobien, Felicitas, Franz Marc (Ramerding: Berghaus Verlag, 1982), p. 15 (ill.).\n\nStadler, Wolfgang, Mit den Augen der Tiere: 25 Gem\u00e4lde (Freiburg: Herder, 1986), color ill. 21. \n\nTobien, Felicitas, Der Blaue Reiter (Kirchdorf-Inn: Berghaus, 1986), p. 64 (color ill.).\n\nKruty, Paul, \u201cArthur Jerome Eddy and His Collection: Prelude and Postscript to the Armory Show,\u201d Arts Magazine 61, 6 (February 1987), ill. 12.\n\nPese, Claus, Franz Marc: Leben und Werk (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), color pl. 88.\n\nRosenthal, Mark, Franz Marc (Munich: Prestel, 1989), pp. 29, 30, 34, 38, color pl. 39. \n\nPartsch, Susanna, Franz Marc (K\u00f6ln: Taschen, 1990), p. 52 (color ill.).\n\nD\u00fcchting, Hajo, Franz Marc (K\u00f6ln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991), p. 128 (color ill. 26).\n\nSchulz-Hoffman, Carla, ed., Sammlung Etta und Otto Stangl, von Klee bis Poliakoff, exh. cat. (Bayerischen Staatsgem\u00e4ldesammlungen\/Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst\/Hatje, 1993), p. 194f.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago and Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1994).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), pp. 29 (color ill.), 159. \n\nBr\u00fccke Museum, Berlin, Der Blaue Reiter und seine K\u00fcnstler, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer, 1998), cat. 70 (color ill.).\n\nOtto, Almut, et. al., Das XX. Jahrhundert: ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, exh. cat. (Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1999), cat. 164 (color ill.).\n\nSotheby\u2019s, London, German & Austrian Art, sale cat. (Sotheby\u2019s, October 6, 1999), p. 60 (ill.).\n\nHoberg, Annegret, and Isabelle Jansen, Franz Marc: The Complete Works (London: Philip Wilson; New York: Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), p. 240, cat. 207 (color ill.).\n\nFranz Marc: The Retrospective, (Prestel), p. 165 (ill.), cat. 76.\n\nVivian Endicott Barnett, ed. Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909\u20131914, exh. cat. (Neu Galerie\/Prestel, 2018), pp. 2 (color ill.); 56; 155, cat. 48 (color ill.); 182.","exhibition_history":"Chicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19-October 22, 1922, cat. 50. \n\nChicago, Art Institute, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931-January 17, 1932, cat. 12 (ill.).\n\nChicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 757.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art, Expressionism and Related Movements, January 26-February 28, 1939, no cat.\n\nBoston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Contemporary German Art, November 2-December 9, 1939, cat. 40a. \n\nNew York, Buchholz Gallery, Franz Marc, November 11-December 7, 1940, n. pag., cat. 16 (ill.).\n\nCambridge, Mass., Germanic Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition, February 4-March 4, 1941, cat. 408.1940.\n\nLincoln, University of Nebraska, Survey of Modern European Painting, March 3-31, 1946, no cat.\n\nMinneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, October 23-November 27, 1950, cat. 81.\n\nChicago, Main Street Bookstore, April 14-30, 1952.\n\nChicago, University of Chicago, May 6, 1952-June 6, 1952.\n\nChicago, University of Chicago, August 22-25, 1952.\n\nNew York, Curt Valentin Gallery, September 20-October 1954.\n\nCambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, November 1-December 11, 1954.\n\nNew York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Der Blaue Reiter, December 7, 1954-January 8, 1955, cat. 44. \n\nCambridge, Mass., Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Artists of the Blaue Reiter, January 21-February 24, 1955, cat. 54 (ill.), p. 11.\n\nKansas 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, p. 4, cat. 13.\n\nColumbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, February 10-March 9, 1961, cat. 53. \n\nMunich, St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Franz Marc, August 10-October 13, 1963, cat. 152.\n\nHamburg, Kunstverein, Franz Marc: Gem\u00e4lde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, November 9, 1963-January 5, 1964, cat. 46 (ill.). \n\nBerkeley, University of California Art Museum, Franz Marc: Pioneer of Spiritual Abstraction, December 5, 1979-February 3, 1980, cat. 30; traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, February 23-April 13, 1980, and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, May 4-June 15, 1980.\n\nNiigata, 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.\n\nBerlin, Br\u00fccke Museum, Der Blaue Reiter und seine K\u00fcnstler, October 3, 1998-January 3, 1999, cat. 70 (color ill.); traveled to Tubingen, Kunsthalle, January 16, 1999-March 28, 1999.\n\nBerlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das XX. 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