Franz Marc was a German expressionist painter from the 20th century and this article looks into his career and paintings in great detail. Franz Marc was part of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) alongside Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and this became an influential group of sought to bring new contemporary ideas into the art mainstream and judging by the success of their careers, and the fact that their reputations are still very strong today, then they certainly succeeded in this ambition.
As a direct result of their experiences together within the Der Blaue Reiter, the two artist held relatively similar styles within their art which was both expressive and slightly abstract. Franz Marc and Kandinsky had started their careers with much more traditional approaches to art, covering landscapes and the like, before the outcome of their art research and new theories caused them to change path in their artistic development. Whilst Kandinsky became known for highly abstract representations of objects through simple shapes and colours, Franz Marc specialised in expressive depictions of animals. The artist commonly covered dogs, horses, cows and tigers in various ways and each follows a similar look in terms of style and colour, giving him an easily recognisable career of work.
The most famous paintings from the career of German painter Marc included Yellow Cow, Fighting Forms, Large Red Horses, Tiger and Large Blue Horses. Sadly for the artist and his many fans he was yet another highly talented and creative individual who whilst excelling within his own career, struggled to establish any kind of stability within his own private life. Franz Marc married twice in his twenties and seemed to regularly be attracted to situations which were clearly not advisable. In this case, Franz Marc is certainly not the only artist to have been embroiled in a challenging and turbulent private life, with others including the likes of Jackson Pollock, Amedeo Modigliani and Vincent Van Gogh.
We can easily conclude that the success of Franz Marc within the mainstream was his popular choices of animals within his paintings as well as the original style in which he covered them. Beyond the success of his work, he also played an important role in the development of contemporary art around the start of the 20th century thanks to his work with Wassily Kandinsky and other modern creative minds within the Der Blaue Reiter movement which is still considered highly influential even today.
You can read more on Franz Marc at Franzmarc.co.uk.
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