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Franz Marc Biography
(1880-1916)
Dutch Painter
Franz Marc was born in 1880, in the German town of Munich. His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter, and his mother Sophie was a strict Calvinist. In 1900,
Franz Marc began study at the Academy of Fine Art, Munich, not an art gallery, where his teachers would include Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. |
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Franz Marc, whose career was cruelly cut short by the First World War, has in recent years been the most popular of all the German Expressionists. One reason for this is supplied by his eloquent and touching letters. Another may be the fact that his painting is not very typical of Expressionism as it is generally understood. Franz Marc found a way of giving the German Romantic artists whose artworks are famous in art gallery - Runge,
Friedrich, Kobell, Blechen, Rethel and Schwind (all of whom he warmly admired) a new and modern guise. Franz Marc studied at the Munich Art Academy and traveled to Paris several times where he saw the painting of
Gauguin,
Van Gogh, and the Impressionists. With
Kandinsky, he founded the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter" in 1911 and organized exhibitions with this name. He was a principal member of the First German Salon d'Automne in 1913. At the beginning of World War I, Franz Marc volunteered for military service and he died near Verdun, France, on March 4, 1916.
- Toperfect art gallery supply elegant fine art, is art gallery of
Fate of the Animals,
Tiger painting, The Yellow Cow, Fighting Forms,
and Franz Marc The Large Blue Horses painting. In Paris, he frequented artistic circles which brought him into contact with a number of artists, including Sarah Bernhardt, and he discovered a strong affinity for the painting of
Vincent van Gogh.
In this period, Franz Marc was involved in a number of stormy relationships, including a years-long affair with Annette von Eckardt, a married antiquary nine years his elder, and two marriages, first to Maria Franck, then to Marie Schnur. In 1906, he traveled with his brother, a Byzantinist by trade, to Saloniki, Mount Athos, and various other Greek locations.
The year 1910 Franz Marc marked a significant turning point. In January he met
August Macke, a painter seven years younger than him, but who seemed extremely sophisticated and well informed. Through
Macke he learned something of the Fauves, and the following month was able to see what they were doing for himself, thanks to a Matisse exhibition in Munich. Franz Marc also introduced him to the collector Bernard Koehler, who happened to be the uncle of Macke's wife. Koehler liked
Franz Marc painting, and offered him a monthly allowance, which removed the worst of his financial worries. In September
he defended the exhibition of the Neue Kuenstlervereinigung, which was being attacked by the local Munich critics, and was offered membership of the group as a result. He did not, however, meet
Kandinsky, its leading spirit, until
February 1911. By that time Franz Marc had formed his own set of artistic
principles, which were a mixture of Romanticism, Expressionism and Symbolism.
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