Friday 2 June 2023

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


Wednesday 31 May 2023

Franz Marc - part 4

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


1911 The Small Blue Horses
(very similar to "The Large Blue Horses" in part 3)
oil on canvas 61.5 x 101 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

1911 Three Deer
oil on paper 60 x 81 cm
(Location Unknown)

1911 Two Cats
oil? on wood panel 98 x 74 cm
(location unknown)

1911 Weasels at Play
oil on canvas 101 x 68 cm
National Gallery of Art,  Washington, DC

1911 White Bull
oil on canvas 100 x 135.2 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1911 Wood-bearer
oil on canvas 140.4 x 109.2 cm
Private Collection

1911 Yellow Cow
oil on canvas 140.5 x 189.2. cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1911 Yellow Cow, Sketch
oil on wood panel 62.5 x 87.5 cm
Private Collection

c1911 Washerwoman with Child
 oil on board 48.2 x 34.3 cm

c1911 Abstract Exotic Landscape
pencil and wash on paper 10 x 17 cm

1912 "Pferde (horses)"
from the book Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
watercolour on paper 14.3 x 20.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1912 Alpine Scene (Haystacks)
oil on canvas 110 x 80 cm
Private Collection

1912 An Animal Legend
woodcut in black on ivory Japanese laid paper
19.9 x 24 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1912 Atonement
woodcut 19.9 x 25.6 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1912 Blue Foals
oil on wood panel 33 x 37 cm
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1912 Cat with Kittens
mixed media on cardboard 35 x 30 cm
Sttatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt

1912 Cats, Red and White
oil on canvas 52 x 35 cm
Private Collection

1912 Cows
gouache, watercolour, brush and ink and pen and ink on paper 23.8 x 27.9 cm

1912 Deer in the Monastery Garden
oil on canvas 75.7 x 101 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1912 Deer in the Woods
oil on canvas 110 x 81 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1912 Fantastic Creature from Der Blaue Reiter
(The Blue Rider)
woodcut with tempera additions 14.6 x 22.1 cm (image)

1912 Lizards
woodcut on paper 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1912 Forest Interior with Bird
oil on canvas 101 x 90.5 cm

1912 Girl with Cat
oil on canvas 71.5 x 66.5 cm
Private Collection

1912 Green Horse in Landscape
watercolour, gouache, and graphite on paper 11.5 x 15.4 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1912 Horses and Eagle
oil on canvas 100 x 135.5 cm
Sprengel Museum, Hannover

1912 In the Rain
oil on canvas 81 x 103.5 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1912 Jumping Horse
oil on canvas 87.5 x 112 cm
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

1912 Little Blue Horse, Picture for a Child
oil on canvas 57.7 x 73.3 cm
Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz

1912 Little Monkey and Human
oil on canvas 51.5 x 35.2 cm
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1912 Mare with Foals
oil on canvas 76 x 90 cm
Private Collection

1912 Paradise
oil and tempera on plaster 398 x 181 cm
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

1912 Pigs
oil on canvas 58.5 x 84 cm
Private Collection

1912 Prancing Horse
pencil and charcoal on paper 17.2 x 101.1 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1912 Reconciliation
woodcut in black on Japan paper 20 x 25.8 cm (image)
National Gallery of Art,  Washington, DC

1912 Red and Blue Horses
pencil. tempera and watercolour on paper laid down on cardboard 35.7 x 45.7 cm
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich

1912 Red Deer
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

1912 Red Woman (Girl with Black Hair)
oil on canvas 100.5 x 70 cm
Leicester City Museum

1912 Sheep
oil on canvas 50 x 70.2 cm
Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz

1912 Sleeping Shepherdess
woodcut on paper 19.5 x 24 cm (image)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA