Although Franz Marc only lived for 36 short years, he had a major impact on the German Expressionist movement.
Born in Munich in 1880, Franz' father was a professional painter known for his landscapes.
At the age of 20, Mr.
Marc began studying under Wilhelm von Diez and Gabriel von Hackl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
He traveled to France in both 1903 and 1907.
During these visits, he visited museums in Paris and copying the paintings found there.
This was a method commonly used to develop technique.
During these visits to Paris, he spent a great deal of time with other artists including Sarah Bernhardt.
Whilte studying his craft, Franz Marc carried on an affair for many years with a married antique dealer by the name of Annette von Eckardt.
He also married twice.
The first marriage was to Marie Schnuer and the second to Maria Franck.
In 1906, he traveled to Greece with his brother and in 1911 he founded a journal by the name of Der Blaue Reiter.
This journal was at the center of an artist circle which included Wassily Kandinsky, Macke and others who had chosen to leave the Neue Kunstlervereinigung movement.
He showed many of his works at the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 and, the following year, was introduced to Robert Delaunay who had a major impact on his work.
Franz Marc created approximately sixty prints using lithography and woodcraft techniques.
Most depict animals in their natural habitats.
His work is characterized by a number of things.
The animals are portrayed using cubist techniques, the prints are simplistic, all use bright primary colors and they all portray a profound sense of emotion.
Influential circles immediately noticed these works while he was stll alive and he was condemned as a degenerate artist by the Nazis in 1936 and 1937.
When one thinks of Franz Marc, chances are they think of his painting Tierschicksale or Fate of the Animals.
This works is displayed in the Kunstmuseum Basel and Marc once said about this work, it "is like a premonition of this war--horrible and shattering.
I can hardly conceive that I painted it.
" Marc's paintings are still in high demand today.
In 1998, the London art auction house Christie's sold his painting Red Deer I (Rote Rehe I) for $3.
30 million.
The following year The Waterfall (Der Wasserfall) sold for $5.
06 million to a private collector by Sotheby's of London.
This sale set a record for Mr.
Marc's work and for all twentieth century German painting.
Most works though are contained in museums around the world including the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Born in Munich in 1880, Franz' father was a professional painter known for his landscapes.
At the age of 20, Mr.
Marc began studying under Wilhelm von Diez and Gabriel von Hackl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
He traveled to France in both 1903 and 1907.
During these visits, he visited museums in Paris and copying the paintings found there.
This was a method commonly used to develop technique.
During these visits to Paris, he spent a great deal of time with other artists including Sarah Bernhardt.
Whilte studying his craft, Franz Marc carried on an affair for many years with a married antique dealer by the name of Annette von Eckardt.
He also married twice.
The first marriage was to Marie Schnuer and the second to Maria Franck.
In 1906, he traveled to Greece with his brother and in 1911 he founded a journal by the name of Der Blaue Reiter.
This journal was at the center of an artist circle which included Wassily Kandinsky, Macke and others who had chosen to leave the Neue Kunstlervereinigung movement.
He showed many of his works at the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 and, the following year, was introduced to Robert Delaunay who had a major impact on his work.
Franz Marc created approximately sixty prints using lithography and woodcraft techniques.
Most depict animals in their natural habitats.
His work is characterized by a number of things.
The animals are portrayed using cubist techniques, the prints are simplistic, all use bright primary colors and they all portray a profound sense of emotion.
Influential circles immediately noticed these works while he was stll alive and he was condemned as a degenerate artist by the Nazis in 1936 and 1937.
When one thinks of Franz Marc, chances are they think of his painting Tierschicksale or Fate of the Animals.
This works is displayed in the Kunstmuseum Basel and Marc once said about this work, it "is like a premonition of this war--horrible and shattering.
I can hardly conceive that I painted it.
" Marc's paintings are still in high demand today.
In 1998, the London art auction house Christie's sold his painting Red Deer I (Rote Rehe I) for $3.
30 million.
The following year The Waterfall (Der Wasserfall) sold for $5.
06 million to a private collector by Sotheby's of London.
This sale set a record for Mr.
Marc's work and for all twentieth century German painting.
Most works though are contained in museums around the world including the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.