Blue Horses
Blue Horses (German: Die grossen blauen Pferde) (The Large Blue Horses) is a 1911 painting by German painter and printmaker Franz Marc (1880–1916). == Background == In 1911 Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and was the center of a circle of German and Russian expatriate artists along with August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and several others whose works were seminal to the development of German Expressionism.