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Franz Marc

"Very soon I felt the man as "ugly"; horse seemed more beautiful and pure."

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Notes of biography

Son of landscape painter Wilhelm Marc, Franz Marc is born in 1880 in Munich (Germany). He studies theology, and philosophy before taking a teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1900 and 1903 with Gabriel Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez.
Franz Marc paints landscapes, portraits, animals, setting himself the goal to "break out space and soul".
He travels to France in 1903, voyage in which he discovers Japanese arts and the work of the Impressionists. He becomes friends with August Macke, meets the collector Bernard Koehler and Wassily Kandinsky (1911). His first personal exhibition is organized in 1910 (Kunsthandlung Brackl, Munich). His art now meets a great success.
The artist undertakes research work on reducing the line to the point; he gives each color characteristic qualities (blue, masculine principle, yellow, female, etc.). The artist takes the animals as the main subject, because he thinks they reflect his ideal of purity. He paints in particular a series of horses that integrates landscape and the theme makes him famous. In 1911, Franz Marc affirms his membership to the Expressionism, joins the New Artists Association of Munich and is cofounder, with Kandinsky, of the Blaue Reiter group (Blue Rider) which he writes part of "The Almanac" (1911).
In 1912, Franz Marc is interested in Cubism, Futurism and the Orphism; he incorporates abstract elements in his compositions, the figure, "ugly and repulsive", disappearing from his past works. In 1913, the "First Autumn Salon” in Berlin, Mark presents some of his most important works of recent years.
In August 1914, the First World War breaks out; he volunteers to fight in the German army. Franz Marc dies in the war, near Verdun, in March 1916.

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
*« Katalog der Werke », K. Lankheit, Du Mont Verlag, Cologne, 1970 *« The complete works, the oil paintings, works on paper, postcards, decorative arts and sculpture », Vol. I et II, A. Hoberg et I. Jansen, Londres, 2004 All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « W. Kandinsky et F. Marc, Der Blaue Reiter », DLM, n°133-134, Ed. Maeght, 1962
  • « Apocalyptic Vision, Franz Marc », F. Levine, Ed. Harper and Row, NY, 1979
  • « F. M. - Gemälde-Aquarelle-Zeichnungen-Graphik », Kunsthandel W. Wittrock, 1984
  • « L'Almanach du Blaue Reiter », Ed. Klincksieck, 1987
  • « The Blue Rider in the Lenbachhaus », A. Zweite, Prestel Verlag, 1989
  • « Franz Marc - Aquarelles », Claus Pese, Schirmer Mosel, 1996
  • « Franz Marc : Horses », coll., Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000
  • « Franz Marc », A. Hoberg et autres, Cat., Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2006
  • « Franz Marc », Klaus A. Carl, Parkstone Publisher, 2013
  • « Franz Marc », coll., cat., Kunst Gallery Kalender, Korsch Verlag, 2018
To read from the artist :
  • « Briefe aus dem Felde e Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen » P Cassierer V., 1920
  • « Ecrits et correspondances », Thomas de Kayser, Ed. ENSBA, Paris, 2007
Website :
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Art movements

+ EXPRESSIONISM / 1900-1932 / Cuno Amiet, Auguste Chabaud, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele, Chaïm Soutine, etc.
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