Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Franz Marc - part 7

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

1913 Two Sheep
postcard from Sindelsdorf to Wassily Kandinsky in Murnau
watercolour, gouache and collage 9 x 14 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 Two Wolves
watercolour and ink on paper 39.3 x 45 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1913 Waterfall in Ice
media? on cardboard 113.5 x 80.5 cm
(Destroyed during World War II)

1913 Wild Horse
postcard from Sindelsdorf to Wassily Kandinsky in Munich
woodcut 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1913 Wood with Squirrel
oil on canvas 109.5 x 100 cm
Kunsthaus, Zurich

1913-14 Abstract Composition
gouache on silver prepared paper 15.5 x 26 cm

1913-14 Abstract Composition
 tempera on paper 12 x 15.3 cm

1913-14 Abstract Watercolour
tempera, watercolour and brush and black ink on paper
22.2 x 16.7 cm

1913-14 Small Composition (House with Trees)
oil on canvas 60.5 x 46 cm
Sprengel Museum, Hannover

1913-14 Small Composition
oil on canvas 45.5 x 56.5 cm
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum der Stadt Hagen

1913-14 The Little Mountain Goats
oil on canvas 60.6 x 40.6 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

1913-14 Tyrol
oil on canvas 135.7 x 144.5 cm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

c1913 Small Fabulous Beast
watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on the reverse of a postcard 9.1 x 14.1 cm

1914  Creation I, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III; German Artists"
 (posthumously printed in 1921 and published in 1922)
woodcut 24 x 19.5 cm (image)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1914 Abstract Forms
oil on canvas 81 x 112.5 cm
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

1914 Abstract
watercolour and pencil on paper 16.7 x 22 cm

1914 Animals in a Landscape
oil on canvas 110.2 x 99.7 cm
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI

1914 Birds
oil on canvas 109 x 100 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1914 Broken Forms
oil on canvas  112 x 84.5 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1914 Caliban - Figurine for "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare
tempera on paper, mounted on cardboard 46.9 x 39.8 cm (sheet)
Kunstmuseum Basel

1914 Cheerful Forms
oil on canvas 105 x 151 cm
(Destroyed during World War II)

1914 Chimera 
limestone: Inlay - Ochre coloured stones  11.7 x 19.5 x 10 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1914 Deer in the Forest
oil and ink on canvas 110.5 x 100.5 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

1914 Fighting Forms (Abstract Forms I)
oil on canvas 91 x 131.5 cm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1914 Genesis I, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists"
woodcut in black on ivory Japanese paper 24 x 20 cm (image)
Harvard University Art Museums Photo
© President and Fellows of Harvard College

1914 Genesis II
woodcut in yellow, black, and green (size not given)
National Gallery of Art,  Washington, DC

1914 Landscape with House and Two Cows
oil on canvas 66 x 71 cm
Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher, Switzerland

1914 Playing Forms
oil on canvas 56.5 x 170 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen

1914 Creation Story I (Animals)
woodcut on paper 24 x 20 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1914 Sheep
oil on canvas 54.5 x 77 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1914 Small Composition IV
oil on canvas 39 x 49 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany

1914 Story of Creation II
woodcut printed in colour 23.9 x 20 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1914 The Little Mountain Goats
oil on canvas 60.5 x 40.5 cm
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

1914 Two Donkeys
watercolour, coloured pencil, and graphite on paper
 21.6 x 16.2 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1914 Two Mythical Animals
woodcut in black on Japan paper 9.9 x 12.1 cm (image)
National Gallery of Art,  Washington, DC

1917 (published posthumously) Stella Peregrina
Illustrated book with 18 hand-coloured facsimile reproductions of drawings 45.5 x 33.6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

n.d. Blue deer in a Landscape
gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 21.7 x 16.7 cm

n.d. Deer leaping among flowers
watercolour and pen and ink on paper 10.3 x 15.2 cm

n.d. Lioness
pen and ink and wash on paper 10.5 x 9 cm

n.d. Sleeping Shepherdess
woodcut in black on cream laid paper 19.8 x 23.9 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. The Waterfall (Women under a Waterfall)
oil on canvas 165.5 x 158.5 cm

n.d. Tiger
watercolour and pencil on paper 10.2 x 17 cm

n.d. Two large horses in a landscape
oil and mixed media on glass 20.3 x 31.2 cm

n.d. Two nudes in a landscape
gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 12 x 19 cm

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