FRANZ MARC 

(1880-1916)

Born in Munich, Germany, where he received his education at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He travelled considerably visiting France, Italy, Greece etc. but in 1907 decided to stay in Paris and, four years later, went to live at Sindeldorf getting to know Kandinsky and Macke.

Starting on naturalistic lines, Franz Marc developed under Kandinsky's influence towards a free style and the colouring symbolic tendency. 

For him, animals symbolized all that was natural and pure and they formed his favourite subject.

So, in 1911 he found his true bent and began his famous animal pictures painted in incandesdent colours.

He became a member of the Neue Kinstlervereinigubg of Munich, and with his friends published the Blaue Reiter, a review that was to inspire the group that adopted that name.

He was an expressionist painter and printmaker.

Mobilized at the outbreak of war, he was killed at Verdun in 1916.

"bathing girls",  1910

 "three cats",  oil on canvas

"the dream"

"two women on the hillside",  1906

"two cats blue and yellow"

"the large blue horses",  1911