Friday 26 May 2023

Franz Marc - part 2

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 2 of a 7-part series on the works of Franz Marc:


1907 Squirrel
oil on canvas 70.5 x 84 cm

1907 Woman by the Sea in the Wind
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 24.8 x 15.8 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1908 Herd of Sheep
gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper 49.5 x 59.5 cm

1908 Jumping Dog Schlick
oil on cardboard 54.5 x 67.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1908 Larch on a Forest Meadow
oil on canvas 100 x 71 cm
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

1908 Large Lenggries Horses
 oil on canvas 105 x 206 cm

1908 Small reed pile near Brunnenbach
pencil and tempera on paper 43.7 x 29 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1908 Study in Green
oil on canvas 151 x 82 cm
Kunsthalle Mannheim

1908 The Panther
bronze
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

c1908 Cat
pencil on paper 17 x 10.5 cm

1908-09 Study of a Horse
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 40 x 26 cm
Private Collection

1908-09 Two Horses
bronze 16.4 x 16.5 x 13 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1909 Deer at Dusk
oil on canvas 70.8 x 100.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1909 Deer in the Reeds
oil on canvas 89 x 79 cm
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1909 Foals at Pasture 
oil on canvas 50.5 x 70.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Interior of Forest with Deer
oil on canvas 102 x 83.8 cm
Sprengel Museum, Hannover

1909 Large Landscape
oil on canvas 110.5 x 211.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Large Study of Rocks
oil on canvas 70 x 99.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Little Oak Tree
oil on canvas 83.5 x 104 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1909 Little Study of Rocks
oil on canvas 58 x 83 cm
Private Collection

1909 Lying Dog
oil on canvas 65 x 78.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Nude Study
oil and tempera on cardboard 89 x 60.2 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main

1909 Reed-Stacks
oil on canvas 65.5 x 89 cm
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

1909 Siberian Dog
oil on canvas 70 x 104 cm
Private Collection

1909 Siberian Shepherd Dogs
oil on canvas 80.5 x 114 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1909 Horses
oil on canvas mounted on board 16 x 25 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1909 Snow-covered Wood
oil on canvas 60.8 x 85.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Two Cats
oil on canvas 40 x 52.5 cm
Private Collection

1909 Wild Rabbit
oil on jute 61.5 x 100.5 cm
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

1909-10 Belt Buckle (lioness pierced by arrow)
chased bronze 6.1 x 7.1 x 1.2 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1909-10 Deer in the Snow
oil on canvas 93 x 72.5 cm
Private Collection

1909-10 Exhibition Poster
colour lithograph 91.9 x 63.3 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1909-10 Landscape: Foothills of the Alps
oil on canvas 62 x 75 cm
Private Collection

1909-10 Nudes on Vermilion, Sketch
oil on canvas 79.5 x 60 cm
The University of Iowa Museum of Art

1910 Bathing Women
oil on canvas 109.2 x 142.2 cm
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA

1910 Cats on a Red Cloth
oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5 cm
Deutsche Bank Art Collection

1910 Grazing Horses
oil on canvas  63.9 x 94.4 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1910 Horse in a Landscape
oil on canvas 85 x 112 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen

1910 Jumping Horses
oil on canvas 148 x 160.5 cm
Private Collection

1910 Keyhole fitting in the form of a sword guard plate (Adam and Eve)
bronze 7 cm diameter
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich


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