The Tiger by Franz Marc: Influences of Cubism by Picasso and Paul Cezanne | Artwork Explained

Animals are the hallmark of one twentieth-century painter; above any other – the German artist Franz Marc. In the Lenbachhaus in Munich hangs one of the finest of them – “The Tiger” which he painted in 1912, when he was 32. It’s not a tiger such as any Romantic artist of the nineteenth century would have painted; not a hunting trophy, nor a beast in a zoo.
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The Masterworks series is a treasure trove of art. Each ten-minute program focuses on an individual painting, with a rich visual survey accompanied by an authoritative voice-over commentary. The selection of works, from galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, covers a broad spectrum of art from the earliest European masterpieces to contemporary works, introducing the unfamiliar and rediscovering the well-loved.

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