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 3 of a 7-part series on the works of Franz Marc:
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| 1910 Keyhole fitting: Panther attacking a horse bronze 11.4 x 4.7 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1910 Landscape oil on canvas 110.5 x 211.5 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany |
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| 1910 Landscape oil on canvas 115.5 x 48.5 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| 1910 Mortar and Pestle engraved and chased brass Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1910 Nude lying among Flowers oil on canvas 72 x 100.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910 Nude with Cat oil on canvas 86.5 x 80 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1910 Nudes on Vermilion oil on canvas 80.6 x 60.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910 Red Deer oil on canvas 87.6 x 88.3 cm |
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| 1910 Standing Horse with Tree pencil on paper 18 x 11.2 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1910-11 Children's Picture oil on canvas 70.8 x 50.5 cm Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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| c1910 Haystacks oil on cardboard 35 x 42 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-11 Wild Boars in the Water watercolour, gouache, and ink on paper 10.2 x 15.9 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| c1910 Haystacks oil on cardboard 35 x 42 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 (repainted in November 1912) Stony Path oil on canvas 130 x 100.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
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| 1910-11 Three Horses in a hilly Landscape graphite, partially washed, on laid paper 112 x 179 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany |
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| 1910-11 Russi Lying oil on cardboard 9.5 x 14.4 cm Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich |
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| 1910-11 Girl with Cat oil on canvas 71 x 67.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-11 Four Female Nudes in a Landscape pencil on paper 9.8 x 15 cm |
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| 1910-11 Dog lying in the Snow oil on canvas 62.5 x 105 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main |
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| 1910-11 Cows under Trees oil on canvas 100 x 72 cm Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr Sammlung Ziegler |
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| 1911 Donkey Frieze oil on canvas 81 x 150 cm Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See |
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| 1911 Deer in the Snow oil on canvas 84.7 x 84.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1911 Cows, Red, Green, Yellow oil on canvas 62.9 x 88 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1911 Chamois tempera on paper laid down on board 57.5 x 72.5 cm |
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| 1911 Blue-black Fox oil on canvas 50 x 63 cm Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal |
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| 1911 Blue Horse oil on canvas 113 x 86 cm Kunstmuseum, Bern |
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| 1911 Blue Horse oil on canvas 112 x 84.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1911 Ape Frieze oil on canvas 76 x 134.5 cm Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| 1911 (repainted in November 1912) Stony Path oil on canvas 130 x 100.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
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| 1911 Fighting Cows oil on canvas 83 x 135 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Gazelle in Landscape chalk on paper 17 x 21.7 cm |
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| 1911 Grazing Horses oil on canvas 121 x 183 cm Harvard University Art Museums Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| 1911 Horses Resting woodcut 16.8 x 23 cm (image) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1911 Landscape with Agave oil on canvas (verso) 100 x 70 cm Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| 1911 Large Green Agave oil on canvas 99.5 x 37 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| 1911 Nudes in the open air oil on canvas 110 x 179 cm Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf |
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| 1911 Portrait of Henri Rousseau ink, oil, metal foil application 15.3 x 11.4 cm Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich |
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| 1911 Red Dog oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| 1911 Stacksin the Snow oil on canvas 79.5 x 100 cm Franz Marc Museum, kochel a. See |
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| 1911 Stags in the Woods oil on canvas 12.2 x 179.5 cm (location unknown) |
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| 1911 The Large Blue Horses oil on canvas 105 x 181 cm Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| 1911 The Shepherd oil on canvas 88 x 83.8 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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