Franz MARC - "Animal Legend" (Aus der Tierlegende) Original woodcut. Signed in the plate M. Franz Marс's original work was created in 1912 and was published 7 years later in the art revue "GENIUS: Zeitschrift fur Werdende und Alte Kunst". Total dimensions: 35 x 26 cm Woodcut: 24 x 20 cm Literature: Catalogue Raisonné Lankheit 1970, no. 831 Very good condition. Ship worldwide with tracking and insured shipping. ** Leicester Museum & Art Gallery: "Published in 1919 in Genius, a deluxe art review founded in the aftermath of the First World War, which had seen Europe devastated both physically and psychologically. Although the cooler observational style of New Objectivity art would emerge in the 1920s, Marc’s Expressionist vision of a natural world in spiritual harmony with itself still appealed to a select market. Stylised animals inhabit an ideal world uncorrupted by man, Marc’s ‘M’ monogram appearing in the image at lower left."