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Biography
Marc was born in Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich starting in 1900. In 1903 and 1907 he spent time in Paris and discovered a strong affinity for the work of Vincent van Gogh. Marc developed an important friendship with the artist August Macke in 1910. In 1911 he formed the Der Blaue Reiter artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and other artists who decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung movement.
He showed several of his works in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912. The exhibition was the apex of the German expressionist movement and also showed in Berlin, Köln, Hagen, and Frankfurt. In 1912, Marc also met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and futurism was the next major influence on Marc's work. Marc began becoming increasingly influenced by futurism and cubism, and his art became increasingly stark and abstract in nature. (continued on the bottom)
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Most of his mature work portrays animals, usually in natural settings. His work is characterized by bright primary color, an almost cubist portrayal of the animals, stark simplicity and a profound sense of emotion, which garnered notice in influential circles even in his own time.
Marc's best known painting is probably Tierschicksale (variously known as Animal Destinies or Fate of the Animals) completed in 1913, which hangs in the Basel Kunstmuseum in Basel. His name was on a list of notable artists to be withdrawn from combat in World War I. Before the orders were carried out, while riding a horse on patrol in the Battle of Verdun (1916), a grenade explosion killed him. In October, 1998, several of Marc's paintings garnered record prices at Christie's art auction house in London.
Franz Marc in Museums (Click on Museum to view image)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Franz Marc
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Blue Horse with Rainbow, 1913
Franz Marc at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Siberian Dogs in the Snow, 1909/10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Dog Lying in the Snow
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Wolves (Balkan War), 1913
Art Institute of Chicago
The Bewitched Mill
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Aus Der Tierlegende
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (in German)
Lenbach House, Munich, Germany (in German)
Der Tiger, 1912
Franz Marc in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain (MAMAC), Liège, Belgium (in French)
Chevaux au pâturage, 1910
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Die Weltenkuh, 1913
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Saint Louis Art Museum Provenance Research Database, Missouri
The Little Mountain Goats, 1913-14
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota