Deer in a Monastery Garden
1912 · Oil on canvas · Lenbachhaus, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- Franz Marc (1880–1916)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 75.7 × 101 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Expressionism
A small deer, hard to find at first, rests among a dense lattice of green, pink, yellow, violet and blue forms; the arches and walls of a monastery garden, its trees and a pale moon-like disc at upper left are broken into overlapping prismatic planes. The picture first reads as pure colour structure, and the animal emerges only slowly. Marc painted it in 1912, the year he and August Macke visited Robert Delaunay in Paris, and it is among the first works in which he took up Delaunay's transparent, interpenetrating colour. The hidden animal makes it a picture about the creature's place within nature rather than a portrait of it, an idea that runs through all his late work. It is in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A hidden deer among prismatic arches of green, pink, yellow and violet, for a living room, bedroom or study at 16×24 in natural wood. A sage, cream or lilac wall; it pairs with Deer in the Forest I.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
