Bison in Winter (the Red Bison) (1913) - Franz Marc - Canvas Print

“Bison in Winter (the Red Bison)” turns a snowy valley into a vivid, almost musical arrangement of curves, color, and quiet animal gravity. A red bison rests prominently in the foreground, while a dark companion stands alert at the right and a smaller red figure moves through the distance. Blue-white drifts sweep across the ground like rolling waves, and deep green trees rise as heavy, angular sentinels. This canvas print preserves the painting’s electric contrast between icy surroundings and warm, breathing bodies.

Painted in 1913, the work belongs to Franz Marc’s Expressionist world, where animals were often more than wildlife: they could suggest innocence, instinct, and a cleaner connection to nature than modern human life allowed. Marc does not offer a zoological field study here; the bison seem to inhabit a landscape imagined from feeling rather than weather reports. Sharp outlines and improbable color make the snow feel active rather than cold. A canvas print lets the winding hills, berry-red coats, and nearly theatrical forest keep their peculiar winter pulse in view.