Marc

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German Expressionist painter, co-founder of the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement alongside Wassily Kandinsky in 1911. Born in Munich, he was passionate about depicting animals, which he considered purer and more spiritual than humans, and developed a style characterized by simplified forms and intense symbolic colors – blue representing masculine spirituality, yellow feminine joy, and red matter. His most famous works include “The Blue Horse,” “The Large Blue Horses,” and “The Tiger,” in which he sought to express the inner essence of animals and their harmony with nature. Influenced by Fauvism, Cubism, and Orphism, he gradually evolved towards abstraction before being killed in combat at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, at the age of 36, leaving behind an unfinished but profoundly influential body of work for modern art.Réessayer