Franz Marc - part 5

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

1912 Bull
woodcut 16 x 22.2 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1912 Swimming Deer
pencil on paper 10.2 x 17 cm

1912 The Antelope
gouache and watercolour on paper mounted on board
 35.6 x 43.8 cm
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

1912 The Dream
oil on canvas 100.5 x 135.5 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

1912 The Fear of the Hare
oil on canvas 76.5 x 137 cm
Private Collection

1912 The Little Monkey
oil on canvas 70.4 x 100 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1912 The Shepherds
oil on canvas 100 x 135 cm
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1912 The Small Yellow Horses
oil on canvas 66 x 104 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

1912 Two Cats, Blue and Yellow
oil on canvas 74 x 98 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel

1912 Two Blue Donkeys (Horse and Donkey)
gouache on paper 35 x 28 cm

1912 Tigers
woodcut 20 x 24.1 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1912 Tiger
oil on canvas 111.5 x 101.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1912 Three Horses
gouache on card 33.5 x 47.5 cm

1912 Three Animals
woodcut 29.8 x 25.1 cm (sheet)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1912 Three Animals
oil and tempera on canvas 80 x 105 cm
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim

1912 The White Dog
oil on canvas 111 x 83 cm
Private Collection

1912 The White Cat
oil on cardboard 48.8 x 60 cm
Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle / Landesmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt 

1912 The Waterfall (Women under a Waterfall)
oil on canvas 164 x 158 cm
Private Collection

1912 Reconciliation
woodcut on paper 20 x 26 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1912 Two Little Horses (Almanac vignette)
pen and India ink on red paper 10.4 x 13.4 cm

1912 Two Horses
watercolour and gouache on paper 44.5 x 38.1 cm 
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

1912-13 Tiger in the Jungle
gouache and graphite on paper 10 x 16.9 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1912-13 Two Deer Lying Down
gouache on paper 10 x 17 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1912-15 Large Landscape
oil on burlap 110.5 x 211.5 cm

c1912 Playing Dogs
gouache on tan cardboard 38.1 x 54.6 cm
Harvard University Art Museums Photo
© President and Fellows of Harvard College

1913 "Altar sheep from Lana", Franz Marc from Sindelsdorf to Gabriele Münter in Munich
postcard, postmark April 11, 1913
watercolour, gouache and ink 9 x 14 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 "Four foxes", Franz Marc from Sindelsdorf to Wassily Kandinsky in Munich
watercolour, gouache and ink 14 x 9 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 "Red and blue horse", Franz Marc from Sindelsdorf to Wassily Kandinsky in Munich
postcard, postmark April 5th, 1913
pencil and watercolour 9 x 14 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 "Zinnobergrüss", Franz Marc from Sindelsdorf to Wassily Kandinsky in Munich
postcard, postmark April 19, 1913
watercolour gouache and pencil 14 x 9 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 Animals in the Landscape (Three Calves and a Horse)
pencil and watercolour on paper 16.2 x 21.6 cm

1913 Birth of the Horses
colour woodcut on Japanese paper 35.5 x 25.4 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 Birth of the Wolves
woodcut 24.4 x 18.4 cm (image)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1913 Bison in Winter (Red Bison)
oil on canvas 66.5 x 71 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel

1913 Black Cow behind a Tree
tempera and gold leaf on a postcard 19 x 14 cm

1913 Blue Horse with Rainbow
watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper 16.5 x 26 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1913 Boar and Sow (Wild Boar)
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 73.5 x 57.5 cm
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

1913 Cattle
oil on canvas 92 x 130.8 cm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1913 Deer in a Flower Garden
oil on canvas 55.3 x 77.4 cm
Kunsthalle, Bremen

1913 Deer in the Forest
oil on canvas 100.9 x 104.7 cm
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

1913 Dream
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 76 x 101 cm
Kunstmuseum, Bern

1913 Dreaming Horse
watercolour, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper
 39.6 x 46.8 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York