Und Alles Sein ist flammend Leid

A bit of a pop-up guerilla posting as I find myself temporarily connected. Whilst I am tempted to write up the last couple of weeks Eighteenth Century Piquet goodness my innate pseudery impels me to join in the ongoing debate about the Great War by way of a piece of art.

Franz Marc's best known painting 'Fate of the Animals' painted in 1913 may have predicted the conflagration to come (1), but he served in the German Army and died at Verdun in 1916. Was he a militaristic, proto-fascist? Does Michael Gove like Expressionist art? Rhetorical Pedant, where art thou?

(1) He claimed it did, but only when writing home from the trenches. It would have been more impressive if he'd said so in advance.