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Franz Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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culture · German artist (1880–1916) · painter · illustrator · printmaker · graphic artist · visual artist · also Franz Marc, Franz Moriz Wilhelm Marc, Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc, Marc
Born 8 February 1880 · Died 4 March 1916 · Q44054
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2026· 2 entries
“[it] is like a premonition of this war – horrible and shattering. I can hardly conceive that I painted it.”
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2021· 1 entry
The German Advisory Commission recommended that the city of Düsseldorf restitute the painting to Grawi's heirs; this was done, and the painting was sold at Christie's by Grawi's heirs in 2022
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2017· 1 entry
The family of Kurt Grawi demanded the restitution of Marc's painting The Foxes (1913) from Düsseldorf's Kunstpalast
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2012· 1 entry
Along with more than a thousand other paintings, in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt whose father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was one of Hitler's four official art dealers of Modernist art the Nazis called "degenerate"
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2008· 1 entry
The former record was again broken when Marc's Weidende Pferde III (Grazing Horses III) was sold for £12,340,500 ($24,376,190) at Sotheby's
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1986· 1 entry
And is dedicated to the artist's life and work
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1938· 1 entry
Before he managed to flee to Chile in 1939
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1936· 1 entry
And 1937, the Nazis condemned the late Marc as an entarteter Künstler (degenerate artist) and ordered approximately 130 of his works removed from exhibition in German museums
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1916· 2 entries
Died 1916-03-04.
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Before orders for reassignment could reach him
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1914· 1 entry
Marc was drafted into the Imperial German Army as a cavalryman
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1913· 1 entry
When "the tension of impending cataclysm had pervaded society", as one art historian noted
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1912· 3 entries
Marc met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and the Cubist method was a major influence on Marc's work
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The collection was exhibited in Wuppertal
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And The Tower of Blue Horses, The Foxes, and Fate of the Animals in 1913
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1911· 1 entry
Marc founded the Der Blaue Reiter journal, which became the center of an artist circle, along with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and others who had decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung movement
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1910· 2 entries
Marc painted Nude with Cat and Grazing Horses, and showed works in the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung (New Artists' Association, of which Marc was briefly a member) at the Thannhauser Galleries in Muni
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Marc developed an important friendship with the artist August Macke
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1907· 1 entry
“I walked [along impressionist paintings in the Paris' museums, 1907] like a roe-deer in an enchanted forest, for which it has always yearned.”
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1906· 1 entry
Marc traveled with his elder brother Paul, a Byzantine expert, to Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, and various other Greek locations
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1903· 1 entry
And 1907, he spent time in France, particularly in Paris, visiting the museums in the city and copying many paintings, a traditional way for artists to study and develop technique
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1900· 1 entry
Began studies instead at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his teachers included Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez
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1880· 2 entries
Born 1880-02-08.
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In Munich, the then capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria
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