Franz Marc was born on February 8, 1880, in Munich. The son of a landscape painter, he decided to become an artist after a year of military service interrupted his plans to study philology. From 1900 to 1902 he studied at the Kunstakademie in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. The following year, during a visit to France, he was introduced to Japanese woodcuts and the work of the Impressionists in Paris.
Marc suffered from severe depression from 1904 to 1907. In 1907 he went again to Paris, where he responded enthusiastically to the work of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, the Cubists, and the Expressionists; later, he was impressed by the Henri Matisse exhibition in Munich in 1910. During this period he received steady income from the animal-anatomy lessons he gave to artists.
In 1910 Marc’s first solo show was held at Kunsthandlung Brackl, Munich; and he met August Macke and the collector Bernhard Koehler. He publicly defended the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM) and was formally welcomed into the group early in 1911, when he met Vasily Kandinsky. After internal dissension split the NKVM, he and Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Reiter, whose first exhibition took place in December 1911 at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie, Munich. Marc invited members of the Berlin Brücke group to participate in the second Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) show two months later at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich. Der Blaue Reiter Almanac was published with lead articles by Marc in May 1912. When World War I broke out in August 1914 Marc immediately enlisted. He was deeply troubled by Macke’s death in action shortly thereafter; during the war, he produced his Sketchbook from the Field. Marc died on March 4, 1916, in Braquis, near Verdun-sur-Meuse, France.
This is part 1 of a 7-part series on the works of Franz Marc:
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| 190-11 Red Deer oil on canvas 87.6 x 88.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1901 Bookplate Daniel Pesl (Exlibris Daniel Pesl) lithograph 8.7 x 9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1902 Alpine Herdsman in his Cottage oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 39 x 26.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1902 Bookplate: Ex Libris Paul Marc lithograph with watercolour additions 6.9 x 5.4 cm (image) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1902 Cottages on Dachau Moor oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 43.5 x 73.6 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1902 Heather oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15 x 24.7 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1902 Herdsboy oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 31.3 x 41 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1902 Portrait of a Friend oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 39 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| 1902 Portrait of the Artist's Father oil on cardboard 73 x 50.8 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1902 Portrait of the Artist's Mother oil on canvas 99.1 x 70.3 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| c1902 Boy with Sledge in Winter Landscape oil on canvas 27.3 x 40.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| c1902 Ex Libris Daniel Pesl lithograph with watercolour additions 10.8 x 2.8 cm (image) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| c1902 Ex Libris lithograph with watercolour additions 11.1 x 3 cm (image) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1902 Staffelalm with Sheep oil on canvas 27.5 x 44 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1903 Alpine Landscape with Flock of Sheep oil on cardboard 31.8 x 47.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1903 Alpine Landscape with Rising Fog oil on paper mounted on cardboard 32.7 x 52.3 cm Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| 1903 Children in a Boat oil on cardboard 27.1 x 39.6 cm Kunsthalle, Bremen |
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| 1903 View from the Staffelalm oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 27.3 x 40.6 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1904 In Indersdorf oil on canvas 40.1 x 31.1 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| c1904 Self-Portrait in Breton Costume mixed media on jute 100.5 x 62.5 cm Städtische Kunstsammlungen Darmstadt |
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| 1905 Ex Libris Franz Marc lithograph with watercolour additions 71.1 x 7.2 cm (image) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1905 Fog between Fir Trees oil on cardboard 14.8 x 24.3 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| 1905 Hay-cart oil on cardboard 20 x 27.4 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1905 Portrait of the Antique Dealer Lämmle (details and whereabouts unknown) |
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| 1905 Small Study of a Horse oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 27.5 x 31.5 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1905 Small Study of a Horse oil on cardboard 15.5 x 24 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1905 The Dead Sparrow oil on wood panel 13 x 16.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1906 Laundry fluttering in the Wind oil on cardboard 19 x 36.2 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| 1906 Monkeys on a Cart oil on canvas 40.5 x 60.3 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| 1906 Portrait of Maria Franck in White Cap oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 41 x 30 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Portrait of Maria Franck with Palette oil on canvas 56.5 x 41 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1906 Reclining Woman oil on canvas 76.5 x 53 cm Private Collection |
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| 1906 Sketch of Horses oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 33 x 32 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Sketch of Horses oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 25 x 39 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Sketch of Horses oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15 x 25 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1906 Small Pool in Snow oil on cardboard 15 x 23.9 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Standing Woman in Winter Landscape oil on cardboard 27.5 x 40.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1906 Two Women on a Hillside, Sketch oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 24.7 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Woman in Winter Landscape on a Green Seat oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 24 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906 Woman Reading in a Meadow oil on cardboard 27.4 x 29.7 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1906-07 The Artist's Father on his Sick Bed oil on canvas 49.6 x 62.8 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1907 Bush in the Sun oil? on canvas 65 x 80 cm (destroyed by the artist) |
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| 1907 Corn Sheafs oil on canvas 79.3 x 59.5 cm The University of Iowa Museum of Art |
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| 1907 Horses by the Sea oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 20.1 x 25.3 cm Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| 1907 Rider by the Sea oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 25 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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