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Oil on wood, diameter 70 cm Cappella Capponi, Santa Felicità, Florence

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Franz Marc, German, 1880-1916
Woodcut, 20 × 24 cm
Expressionism

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Liegender Stier. Tempera, 40 × 46 cm, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Expressionism

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Oil on canvas, 87 x 65 cm, Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf

Franz Marc was born on February 8, 1880, in Munich, Germany. With Kandinsky, he founded the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter" in 1911 and organized exhibitions with this name. He was a principal member of the First German Salon d'Automne in 1913.

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. - WebMuseum