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:
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| 1907 Squirrel oil on canvas 70.5 x 84 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 1908 Herd of Sheep gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper 49.5 x 59.5 cm |
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| 1908 Jumping Dog Schlick oil on cardboard 54.5 x 67.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1908 Larch on a Forest Meadow oil on canvas 100 x 71 cm Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| 1908 Large Lenggries Horses oil on canvas 105 x 206 cm |
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| 1908 Small reed pile near Brunnenbach pencil and tempera on paper 43.7 x 29 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1908 Study in Green oil on canvas 151 x 82 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| 1908 The Panther bronze Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| c1908 Cat pencil on paper 17 x 10.5 cm |
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| 1908-09 Study of a Horse oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 40 x 26 cm Private Collection |
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| 1908-09 Two Horses bronze 16.4 x 16.5 x 13 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1909 Deer at Dusk oil on canvas 70.8 x 100.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1909 Deer in the Reeds oil on canvas 89 x 79 cm Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| 1909 Foals at Pasture oil on canvas 50.5 x 70.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Interior of Forest with Deer oil on canvas 102 x 83.8 cm Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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| 1909 Large Landscape oil on canvas 110.5 x 211.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Large Study of Rocks oil on canvas 70 x 99.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Little Oak Tree oil on canvas 83.5 x 104 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1909 Little Study of Rocks oil on canvas 58 x 83 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Lying Dog oil on canvas 65 x 78.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Nude Study oil and tempera on cardboard 89 x 60.2 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main |
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| 1909 Reed-Stacks oil on canvas 65.5 x 89 cm Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster |
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| 1909 Siberian Dog oil on canvas 70 x 104 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Siberian Shepherd Dogs oil on canvas 80.5 x 114 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1909 Horses oil on canvas mounted on board 16 x 25 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1909 Snow-covered Wood oil on canvas 60.8 x 85.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Two Cats oil on canvas 40 x 52.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Wild Rabbit oil on jute 61.5 x 100.5 cm Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
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| 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 |
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| 1909-10 Deer in the Snow oil on canvas 93 x 72.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909-10 Exhibition Poster colour lithograph 91.9 x 63.3 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1909-10 Landscape: Foothills of the Alps oil on canvas 62 x 75 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909-10 Nudes on Vermilion, Sketch oil on canvas 79.5 x 60 cm The University of Iowa Museum of Art |
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| 1910 Bathing Women oil on canvas 109.2 x 142.2 cm Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1910 Cats on a Red Cloth oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5 cm Deutsche Bank Art Collection |
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| 1910 Grazing Horses oil on canvas 63.9 x 94.4 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1910 Horse in a Landscape oil on canvas 85 x 112 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| 1910 Jumping Horses oil on canvas 148 x 160.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 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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