Yellow Cow  1911

by Franz Marc

Yellow Cow ([i]Gelbe Kuh[/i]) [br] During the early years of the twentieth century, a back-to-nature movement swept Germany. Artists’ collectives and nudist colonies sprung up in agricultural areas in the conviction that a return to the land would rejuvenate what was perceived to be an increasingly secularized, materialistic society. A seminarian and philosophy student tu...
Size: 
4 feet 7 3/8 inches x 6 feet 2 1/2 inches (140.5 x 189.2 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons