Marc, Franz
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Towards Abstraction
Franz Marc was born on February 8, 1880, in Munich, Germany. He
studied at the Munich Art Academy and traveled to Paris several
times where he saw the work 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, he volunteered for military service and he
died near Verdun, France, on March 4, 1916.
Franz Marc was a pioneer in the birth of abstract art at the
beginning of the twentieth-century The Blaue Reiter group put
forth a new program for art based on exuberant color and on
profoundly felt emotional and spiritual states. It was Marc's
particular contribution to introduce paradisiacal imagery that had
as its dramatis personae a collection of animals, most notably a
group of heroic horses.
Tragically, Marc was killed in World War I at the age of
thirty-six, but not before he had created some of the most exciting
and touching paintings of the Expressionist movement.
Photographs by
Mark Harden.
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Dog Lying in the Snow
1910-11 (160 Kb); Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 105 cm;
Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
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The Yellow Cow
1911 (100 Kb); Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 189.2 cm;
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Deer in the Woods II
1912 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 80.5 cm;
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Tiger
1912 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 111 x 111.5 cm;
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
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The fate of the animals
1913 (130 Kb); Oil on canvas, 196 x 266 cm;
Kunstmuseum, Basle
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Foxes
1913 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 87 x 65 cm;
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
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Fighting Forms
1914 (150 Kb); Oil on canvas, 91 x 131 cm;
Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich
© 28 Oct 1995,
Nicolas Pioch -
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