Most of his mature work portrays animals, usually in natural settings. Marc made some sixty prints in woodcut and lithography. Style Die großen blauen Pferde, The Large Blue Horses (1911) Marc was on the list but was struck in the head and killed instantly by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 before orders for reassignment could reach him. Īfter mobilization of the German Army, the government identified notable artists to be withdrawn from combat for their own safety. īy 1916, he had been promoted to lieutenant and awarded the Iron Cross. He took pleasure in creating a series of nine such tarpaulin covers in styles varying 'from Manet to Kandinsky', suspecting that the latter could be the most effective against aircraft flying at 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) or higher. His technique for hiding artillery from aerial observation was to paint canvas covers in broadly pointillist style. By February 1916, as shown in a letter to his wife, he had gravitated to military camouflage. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Marc was drafted into the Imperial German Army as a cavalryman. Wartime The military person's estate of Franz Marc on display in a museum He painted The Tiger and Red Deer in 1912 and The Tower of Blue Horses, The Foxes, and Fate of the Animals in 1913. In 1912, Marc met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and the futurist method was a major influence on Marc's work fascinated by futurism and cubism, Marc created art that increasingly was stark in nature, painting natural abstract forms which found spiritual value in color. Though Marc showed several of his works in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition at the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912, as it was the apex of the German expressionist movement, the exhibit also showed in Berlin, Cologne, Hagen, and Frankfurt. In 1911, Marc founded the Der Blaue Reiter journal, which became the center of an artist circle, along with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and others who had decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung movement. In 1910 Marc painted Nude with Cat and Grazing Horses, and showed works in the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung (New Artists' Association, of which Marc was briefly a member) at the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich. A few years later, in 1910, Marc developed an important friendship with the artist August Macke.

In 1906, Marc traveled with his elder brother Paul, a Byzantine expert, to Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, and various other Greek locations. Career Blaues Pferd I, Blue Horse I (1911) He married twice, first to Marie Schnür, then to Maria Franck both were artists. ĭuring his 20s, Marc was involved in a number of stormy relationships, including an affair lasting for many years with Annette Von Eckhardt, a married antique dealer nine years his senior. After the 1903 trip, he ceased attending the Academy of Fine Arts. He discovered a strong affinity for the work of painter Vincent van Gogh. In Paris, Marc frequented artistic circles, meeting numerous artists and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. In 19, he spent time in France, particularly in Paris, visiting the museums in the city and copying many paintings, a traditional way for artists to study and develop technique. He was first required to serve in the military for a year, after which, in 1900, he began studies instead at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his teachers included Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. Two years later, however, he enrolled in the arts program of Munich University. At the age of 17 Marc wanted to study theology, as his older brother Paul had.

His father, Wilhelm Marc, was a professional landscape painter his mother, Sophie, was a homemaker and a devout, socially liberal Calvinist. Early life įranz Marc was born in 1880 in Munich, the then capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His major paintings have attracted large sums, with a record of £42,654,500 for Die Füchse ( The Foxes) in 2022. His work is now exhibited in many eminent galleries and museums. However, most of his work survived World War II, securing his legacy. In the 1930s, the Nazis named him a degenerate artist as part of their suppression of modern art. He was drafted to serve in the German Army at the beginning of World War I, and died two years later at the Battle of Verdun.

His mature works mostly are animals, and are known for bright colors. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism.

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