![]() ![]() Two years later, however, he enrolled in the arts program of Munich University. At the age of 17 Marc wanted to study theology, as his older brother Paul had. His father, Wilhelm Marc, was a professional landscape painter his mother, Sophie, was a homemaker and a devout, socially liberal Calvinist. Early life įranz Marc was born in 1880 in Munich, the then capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. When up for auction, his major paintings attract large sums, with a record of £42,654,500 for Die Füchse ( The Foxes). His work is now exhibited in many eminent galleries and museums. However, most of his work survived World War II, securing his legacy. In the 1930s, the Nazis named him a degenerate artist as part of their suppression of modern art. He was drafted to serve in the German Army at the beginning of World War I, and died two years later at the Battle of Verdun. His mature works mostly are animals, and are known for bright colors. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. According to him, only animals had preserved a “chaste majesty.Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. 154.Īnimals in a landscape were, for the artist, a bridge between man and nature, whose vanished unity he wished to restore. (…) an animal’s unadulterated awareness of life made me respond with everything that was good.įranz Marc in: Dietmar Elger, Expressionism: A Revolution in German Art, s. On the whole, instinct has never failed to guide me… especially the instinct which led me away from man’s awareness of life and towards that of a “pure” animal. For Marc, animals were the ideal subject matter for depicting truth, purity, and beauty. The image of animals continued to become ever more prominent in his art, almost entirely replacing the human form. ![]() Through rigorous and disciplined study, he created a general concept of animal and human forms. When living in Berlin, he spent countless hours at the Berlin Zoo studying and sketching the forms of animals from every conceivable angle. He devoted himself to the study of the anatomy of animals.įranz Marc, Resting Horses, 1911-1912, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA. His works embody the heightened anxieties of early 20th-century Europe, as people struggled with a rapidly changing urban world on the precipice of war. He suffered from severe depression, and nature was something calming for him. ![]() His analysis of color associated blue with the masculine, yellow with the feminine, and red with the physical – often violent – world.įranz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter Almanach, 1912, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Not only did he understand the potential for color to affect mood, but he also developed a specific theory of color symbolism. The color was also extremely important for Marc. Kandinsky wrote 20 years later that the name derived from Marc’s enthusiasm for horses and Kandinsky’s love of riders, combined with a shared love of the color blue.įor Kandinsky, blue is the color of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal. The name of the movement is the title of a painting that Kandinsky created in 1903, but it is unclear whether it is the origin of the name of the movement, as art historians found out that the title of the painting had been overwritten. He then met August Macke and Wassily Kandinsky, with whom he formed the group Der Blaue Reiter. In 1910, Marc’s first solo show was held at Kunsthandlung Brackl in Munich, Germany. Franz Marc, Blue Horse, Red House, and Rainbow, postcard from Sindelsdorf to Paul Klee in Munich, 1913, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany. ![]()
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