Marc, Franz

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.

• Dog Lying in the Snow
  1910-11 (160 Kb); Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 105 cm; Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
  

• The Yellow Cow
  1911 (100 Kb); Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 189.2 cm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  

• Deer in the Woods II
  1912 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 80.5 cm; Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  

• Tiger
  1912 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 111 x 111.5 cm; Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  

• The fate of the animals
  1913 (130 Kb); Oil on canvas, 196 x 266 cm; Kunstmuseum, Basle
  

• Foxes
  1913 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 87 x 65 cm; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
  

• Fighting Forms
  1914 (150 Kb); Oil on canvas, 91 x 131 cm; Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich