![]() ![]() The Blue Rider was a way for artists to escape what more formal institutions of the time were doing which was to gravitate closer to colors and shapes which matched reality. ![]() The name was inspired by both artists’ affinity for blue color, with Kandinsky liking the idea of a horse rider, and Marc being partial to horses. Their unity and friendship combined into an active working relationship with the artist group called “New Artist’s Association” and the creation of the “Der Blaue Reiter”, or “The Blue Rider”. This might be said to have been inevitable, as by now Marc had developed a very personal theory of symbolic color theory, which began to inform his work.Ī couple of years later, Franz Marc met another famous painter, a well-known person in the art world – expressionist Wassily Kandinsky. They say emulation is a form of flattery, but it takes a special artist to move beyond mere stylistic copying, which Franz certainly did before too long. With this painting in particular, vibrant brush strokes and vivid colors occupy the viewer’s eye and give a feeling of two cats enjoying a typical feline day in the life, very similar to the Van Gogh in its exploration of things you might see around you, but depicted differently than you’ve ever seen them before, with that slight jolt of experimental abstraction. Still, the color scheme adheres to the tones of reality, seeing Marc not yet venturing off into the realms of experimentation he would soon explore. Encountering the artworks of both Gaugin and Van Gogh, Marc took their work to heart and realized that his love of nature might be a way to express himself artistically, as these two artists had done.įor example, speaking of influence, his work called “Cats on a Red Cloth”, which was created around 1909-1910, was strongly influenced by Van Gogh as you might notice. The influence of other artists had a very huge impact on Franz Marc. He spent his days visiting local art museums, and had absorbed the nuances of classical painting partly by viewing their works, but also by copying the old masters he was surrounded by. His father was a landscape painter, and his mother was a homemaker and socially liberal Calvinist.ĭespite his father being an artist himself, he didn’t suppose Franz would make a great artist, and so this dismissive air made Franz depressed, and yet he still entered the Munich Academy to learn art.Īfter a couple of years in the fine arts program, rather dejected by the academy’s limitations on artists like himself, Franz decided to travel to Paris, which was the art center of the world at that time. His younger days were spent within the free spiritedness of a highly creative and liberal-minded family. Dubbed “The Little Philosopher” by his family, Franz was by nature shy and especially sensitive, like many artists. Franz-Marc Backgroundįranz Marc was born on 8th February. He is today regarded as one of the most important artists of the 20th Century.Franz Marc was a German Expressionist, who created many artworks featuring nature and animals, and was a co-founder and an active member of the German art group, “Der Blaue Reiter”, or “The Blue Rider”. When World War I broke out, Marc volunteered to join the German Army and, tragically, he died near Verdun in France on 4 March 1916. Marc in particular is associated with his paintings in this style of animals, principally horses and dogs. Der Blaue Reiter proposed an artistic system based on the vivid and powerful use of colour stimulated by deeply held spiritual and emotional beliefs. Marc was thus one of the pioneers in the creation of the abstract art movement. He also became a principal member of the First German Salon d’Automne in 1913. On his return to Germany he founded, with Kandinsky, the extremely influential Almanac “Der Blaue Reiter” in 1911. "The German artist Franz Marc was born in Munich in 1880 and studied at the Munich Art Academy.ĭuring his education he travelled to Paris several times, where he was influenced by the work of the Impressionists and by van Gogh and Gauguin. ![]()
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