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Franz Marc
1880 - 1916
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
German, Fauvist Painter and Co-founder of The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
Artistically Influenced by the following Painters and Art Movements: Art Nouveau, Cubism, Paul Klee, James Ensor, Paul Cézanne and, Wassily Kandinsky
Education - Marc grew up in the studio of his father, Wilhelm Marc, who was a skilled self-supporting landscape painter. He later attended the Munich Academy of Art but dropped out.
Cause of Death - Franz Marc was a soldier in the trenches in World War 1. In the spring of 1916 he was killed instantly when shrapnel blew his head off, nearly decapitating him. He died at Verdun, France.
The Nazis defamed his work as “Entartete Kunst” in 1937 and seized all of his paintings on exhibit in public museums.
Franz Marc Quotations
The present isolation of the rare, genuine artist is absolutely
unavoidable for the moment. -- Franz Marc Quote
Blue is the male principle, astringent and spiritual. Yellow is the
female principle, gentle, gay and spiritual. Red is matter, brutal and
heavy and always the colour to be opposed and overcome by the other two.
-- Franz Marc Quote
War is one of the most evil things to which we sacrificed ourselves. --
Franz Marc Quote
Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with Expressionst Painting - Germany, early 20th century, emotional effects, emotional experience, avant-garde, emotional angst, Herwarth Walden, Der Sturm, graphic art, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, psychological depths, symbolic colors, exaggerated imagery, human psyche, exaggeration, primitivism, jarring colors, self-expression, expression intensity, printmaking, psychological,emotional themes, existential anguish, industrial modern age, individual genius, sense of movement, energy
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Fighting
Forms from 1914 is my favorite Marc painting. This work was
unquestionably produced under the sway of Wassily Kandinsky. Franz Marc
is the originator of modern art. The `Blue Rider' group was founded by
Franz and his chum Kandinsky. As time passed, under Kandinsky' s sway
Marc turned increasingly to abstract art. His father labored as a
professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. The young Franz initially
wanted to become a priest. Then he turned to philosophy. In 1900 he took
painting classes at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and decided to purse
his love of painting. -- Kathryn Lynne Marcel, Berlin, Germany
Franz paintings are a convoluted and velvety matrix of both
mysteriousness and discovery. His work is "contained by a tortured soul"
and can only be described as 'incredible' and 'farsighted'. Some figures
are delicately executed; others progress more mischievously and seem
thrown into the composition. . -- Bonnie Goldstein, Germantown, Pa
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