Genesis II (Schopfungsgeschichte II) (1914) - Franz Marc - Canvas Print

“Genesis II (Schopfungsgeschichte II)” hurls creation into a restless tangle of black contours, sharp green currents, and glowing yellow fragments. Animal bodies, leaves, eyes, and almost-cosmic shapes seem to surface and vanish inside the same visual storm. Franz Marc makes the scene feel less like a peaceful beginning than a universe discovering its own pulse. A canvas print preserves the startling collision between velvety darkness and flashes of color.

Painted in 1914, this Expressionist vision belongs to Marc’s late, increasingly abstract period, when forms were breaking free from ordinary appearances. He famously associated colors with emotional and spiritual force, and here yellow and green behave like quick sparks in a dense black thicket. The title invokes Genesis, yet the image offers no tidy illustrated origin story; it is creation as a wonderfully unruly knot. On this canvas print, every looping line can look like a creature, a branch, or an idea still deciding what it wants to become.