Birth of Wolves
1913
Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916)
  • Title: Birth of Wolves
  • Date: 1913
  • Medium: Woodcut on Japanese laid tissue paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 10 x 7-1/2 in. (25.4 x 19.1 cm); sheet: 16-1/2 x 11-7/8 in. (41.9 x 30.2 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.290
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

Techniques of Printmaking: Woodblocks

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1974-04-16 to 1974-06-02

Franz Marc exhibition

  • San Francisco, Paul Elder Gallery, 1927-01-10 to
  • San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, to 1927-04

German Expressionism

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1961-04-25 to 1961-06-04

Expressionists

  • Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-

German Expressionist Exhibition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18

From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25

Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others

  • Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
  • Lankheit, Klaus, Franz Marc: Katalog der Werke, no. 841
  • Schardt, Alois J., Franz Marc, 1936, VII, 1913, 3 p. 173
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 414 p. 150
  • Lankheit, Klaus, Franz Marc: seine Leben und seine Kunst, 1976, p. 145
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 391 p. 384

Additional Artwork by Artist

Bathing Girls Franz Marc 1910
Wild Ponies Franz Marc 1912

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