Kochel am See

The lake across from the Franz Marc Museum, portrayed in Kochel am See [above] remains almost mythical in my psyche. . . this was the sort of serene natural world that inspired Marc's Utopian paintings of animals, and this was the sort of serene world that he did not wish to see threatened by the march of the soldiers and machines of World War I, leading to his more disturbing, apocalyptic visions. Staring across the lake, mountains and a warm village in the distance, I had found a complete and profound beauty, and his paintings became vivid reality. . .

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