Monday 29 May 2023

Franz Marc - part 3


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


1910 Keyhole fitting: Panther attacking a horse
bronze 11.4 x 4.7 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1910 Landscape
oil on canvas 110.5 x 211.5 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany

1910 Landscape
oil on canvas 115.5 x 48.5 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

1910 Mortar and Pestle
engraved and chased brass
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1910 Nude lying among Flowers
oil on canvas 72 x 100.5 cm
Private Collection

1910 Nude with Cat
oil on canvas 86.5 x 80 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1910 Nudes on Vermilion
oil on canvas 80.6 x 60.3 cm
Private Collection

1910 Red Deer
oil on canvas 87.6 x 88.3 cm

1910 Standing Horse with Tree
pencil on paper 18 x 11.2 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1910-11 Children's Picture
oil on canvas 70.8 x 50.5 cm
Sprengel Museum, Hannover


c1910 Haystacks
oil on cardboard 35 x 42 cm
Private Collection

1910-11 Wild Boars in the Water
watercolour, gouache, and ink on paper 10.2 x 15.9 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

c1910 Haystacks
oil on cardboard 35 x 42 cm
Private Collection

1911 (repainted in November 1912) Stony Path
oil on canvas 130 x 100.5 cm
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1910-11 Three Horses in a hilly Landscape
graphite, partially washed, on laid paper 112 x 179 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

1910-11 Russi Lying
oil on cardboard 9.5 x 14.4 cm
Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich

1910-11 Girl with Cat
oil on canvas 71 x 67.5 cm
Private Collection

1910-11 Four Female Nudes in a Landscape
pencil on paper 9.8 x 15 cm

1910-11 Dog lying in the Snow
oil on canvas 62.5 x 105 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main

1910-11 Cows under Trees
oil on canvas 100 x 72 cm
Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr Sammlung Ziegler

1911 Donkey Frieze
oil on canvas 81 x 150 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1911 Deer in the Snow
oil on canvas 84.7 x 84.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1911 Cows, Red, Green, Yellow
oil on canvas 62.9 x 88 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1911 Chamois
tempera on paper laid down on board 57.5 x 72.5 cm

1911 Blue-black Fox
oil on canvas 50 x 63 cm
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

1911 Blue Horse
oil on canvas 113 x 86 cm
Kunstmuseum, Bern

1911 Blue Horse
oil on canvas 112 x 84.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1911 Ape Frieze
oil on canvas 76 x 134.5 cm
Kunsthalle, Hamburg

1911 (repainted in November 1912) Stony Path
oil on canvas 130 x 100.5 cm
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1911 Fighting Cows
oil on canvas 83 x 135 cm
Private Collection

1911 Gazelle in Landscape
chalk on paper 17 x 21.7 cm

1911 Grazing Horses
oil on canvas 121 x 183 cm
Harvard University Art Museums
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

1911 Horses Resting
woodcut 16.8 x 23 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1911 Landscape with Agave
oil on canvas (verso) 100 x 70 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1911 Large Green Agave
oil on canvas 99.5 x 37 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

1911 Nudes in the open air
oil on canvas 110 x 179 cm
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

1911 Portrait of Henri Rousseau
ink, oil, metal foil application 15.3 x 11.4 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1911 Red Dog
oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

1911 Stacksin the Snow
oil on canvas  79.5 x 100 cm
Franz Marc Museum, kochel a. See

1911 Stags in the Woods
oil on canvas 12.2 x 179.5 cm
(location unknown)


1911 The Large Blue Horses
oil on canvas 105 x 181 cm
 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1911 The Shepherd
oil on canvas 88 x 83.8 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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