Göring sold at least some of these at a considerable profit, but appears not to have sold The Tower of Blue Horses, which went missing at war's end.Įdwin Redslob, an art historian who became Rector of the Free University of Berlin, wrote in 1977 that he had seen the painting in the Haus am Waldsee in Zehlendorf, Berlin, while still under Soviet occupation, i.e., in the first half of 1945, and the journalist Joachim Nawrocki reported having seen it in the adjacent youth hostel in the winter of the Berlin blockade, 1948/49, with two or three slits cut in it. In spring 1936, now valued at 20,000 RM, it was then transferred to Hermann Göring's custody as part of a select group of valuable modernist paintings which also included two other works by Marc. At that time it was valued at 80,000 Reichsmarks. However, in response to a protest by veterans because Marc had died fighting for his country in the war, the painting was removed and was not included in the exhibition when it opened in Berlin. It was removed from there as part of the "cleansing" of modern art works under the Nazis, and included in the Degenerate Art exhibition which opened in July 1937 in Munich. After the war, The Tower of Blue Horses was one of the works by Marc acquired for the new contemporary annexe of the Berlin National Gallery housed in the Kronprinzenpalais. The large-format painting was one of seven works by Marc exhibited that autumn in the First German Autumn Salon ( Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon). This is now in the Munich State Graphics Collection. The Blue Horses sketch uses her favourite colour, blue, and personal symbols of hers, the Moon and stars. A preliminary sketch in ink and gouache survives in the form of a new year's postcard for that year to the poet Else Lasker-Schüler, one of 28 painted postcards which the artist sent to her and which she answered in illustrated letters later used in her novel Malik. Marc created the painting in summer 1913. History 1912/13 sketch on a postcard to Else Lasker-Schüler The foremost horse has a crescent moon on its chest, and crosses on its body which suggest stars.
To the left of their rumps, which form the centre of the picture, is an abstract landscape above it is an orange rainbow on a yellow background.
Most of the picture is occupied by a frontal view of four primarily blue horses, arranged in a tier to the right of centre, facing the viewer but with their heads turned to the left the foremost horse seemed "only a little less than life size" to at least one writer. The Tower of Blue Horses was a large work, 200 by 130 centimetres (6 ft 7 in × 4 ft 3 in).
It has been called one of his best works, but went missing in 1945. The Tower of Blue Horses ( German: Der Turm der blauen Pferde) is a 1913 oil painting by the German Expressionist artist Franz Marc. Painting by Franz Marc The Tower of Blue Horses
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