FRANZ MARC
Deutscher Maler, (1880-1916, Munchen.
Mit Kandinsky Begrunder des "Blauen Reiters". Bekanntschaft mit Delaunay. Entwickelte seinen bis an die Grenze der abstrakten Malerei fuhrenden Stil unter dem Einffluss Kandinskys, bayerrischer Volkskunst und orientalischer Miniaturen.
This German expressionist painter and printmaker studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He travelled considerably, visiting Italy, Greece, France etc. Lived for a while  in Paris. Then, in 1910, went to Sindeldorf. Getting to know Kandinsky and Macke, he joined them in their struggle for a revival of painting.
In 1911 he found his true bent and began his famous animal pictures   colored  with primary colors. Those colors that had a meaning for him. The blue was masculinity and spirituality. The red was violence. And the yellow feminine joy.
Under that influence of Cubism and particularly of Delaunay, in 1913,  he began to employ  more closely constructed forms, richly coloured, melted into a cosmic harmony in which the subject became of minor importance.
Mobilized at the outbreak of the 1st war, he was killed at Verdun, in France.

Self portrait

"Nude with cat" 1912

"Reiter am meer"

"Mädchen mit Katze" 1912

"Badende frauen" 1910