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Oct 14, 2023 · Franz Marc is a prolific and widely celebrated German painter and printmaker who was born in 1880 in the German city of Munich. He is perhaps best known for his very colourful and stirring paintings of animals that are created in the expressionist style.
Franz Marc. German, 1880–1916. Starr Figura, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Painter, watercolorist, printmaker. Gave up studying theology and philosophy for painting in 1900. By 1910 discovered main artistic theme— animals—which he regarded as uncorrupted symbols of spiritual renewal.
Oct 14, 2023 · Franz Marc spent time analysing the use of colour within art history. He then formulated a method of colour for his own work. Blue tones would symbolise strength and masculinaty, yellows for the feminine sie and red with the physical and violent modern world. As well as using art to promote a form of harmony which was missing from a western ...
