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


Wednesday 24 May 2023

Franz Marc - part 1

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


190-11 Red Deer
oil on canvas 87.6 x 88.3 cm
Private Collection

1901 Bookplate Daniel Pesl
(Exlibris Daniel Pesl)
lithograph 8.7 x 9 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1902 Alpine Herdsman in his Cottage
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 39 x 26.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1902 Bookplate: Ex Libris Paul Marc
lithograph with watercolour additions 6.9 x 5.4 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1902 Cottages on Dachau Moor
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 43.5 x 73.6 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1902 Heather
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15 x 24.7 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1902 Herdsboy
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 31.3 x 41 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1902 Portrait of a Friend
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 39 x 31 cm
Private Collection

1902 Portrait of the Artist's Father
oil on cardboard 73 x 50.8 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1902 Portrait of the Artist's Mother
oil on canvas 99.1 x 70.3 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

c1902 Boy with Sledge in Winter Landscape
oil on canvas 27.3 x 40.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

c1902 Ex Libris Daniel Pesl
lithograph with watercolour additions 10.8 x 2.8 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

c1902 Ex Libris
lithograph with watercolour additions 11.1 x 3 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1902 Staffelalm with Sheep
oil on canvas 27.5 x 44 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1903 Alpine Landscape with Flock of Sheep
oil on cardboard 31.8 x 47.2 cm
Private Collection

1903 Alpine Landscape with Rising Fog
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 32.7 x 52.3 cm
Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1903 Children in a Boat
oil on cardboard 27.1 x 39.6 cm
Kunsthalle, Bremen

1903 View from the Staffelalm
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 27.3 x 40.6 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1904 In Indersdorf
oil on canvas 40.1 x 31.1 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

c1904 Self-Portrait in Breton Costume
mixed media on jute 100.5 x 62.5 cm
Städtische Kunstsammlungen Darmstadt

1905 Ex Libris Franz Marc
 lithograph with watercolour additions 71.1 x 7.2 cm (image)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

1905 Fog between Fir Trees
oil on cardboard 14.8 x 24.3 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

1905 Hay-cart
oil on cardboard 20 x 27.4 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1905 Portrait of the Antique Dealer Lämmle
(details and whereabouts unknown)

1905 Small Study of a Horse
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 27.5 x 31.5 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1905 Small Study of a Horse
oil on cardboard 15.5 x 24 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1905 The Dead Sparrow
oil on wood panel 13 x 16.5 cm
Private Collection


1906 Laundry fluttering in the Wind
oil on cardboard 19 x 36.2 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen

1906 Monkeys on a Cart
oil on canvas 40.5 x 60.3 cm
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

1906 Portrait of Maria Franck in White Cap
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 41 x 30 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Portrait of Maria Franck with Palette
oil on canvas 56.5 x 41 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1906 Reclining Woman
oil on canvas 76.5 x 53 cm
Private Collection

1906 Sketch of Horses
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 33 x 32 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Sketch of Horses
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 25 x 39 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Sketch of Horses
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15 x 25 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1906 Small Pool in Snow
oil on cardboard 15 x 23.9 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Standing Woman in Winter Landscape
oil on cardboard 27.5 x 40.5 cm
Private Collection

1906 Two Women on a Hillside, Sketch
oil on paper mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 24.7 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Woman in Winter Landscape on a Green Seat
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 24 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906 Woman Reading in a Meadow
oil on cardboard 27.4 x 29.7 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1906-07 The Artist's Father on his Sick Bed
oil on canvas 49.6 x 62.8 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1907 Bush in the Sun
oil? on canvas 65 x 80 cm
(destroyed by the artist)

1907 Corn Sheafs
oil on canvas 79.3 x 59.5 cm
The University of Iowa Museum of Art

1907 Horses by the Sea
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 20.1 x 25.3 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1907 Rider by the Sea
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 15.5 x 25 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen