Vente de tableaux et peintures de Franz Marc

Franz Moritz Wilhelm was born on 8 February 1880 in Munich to an artist father, teacher and painter Wilhelm Marc, and Sophie Maurice. His Protestant upbringing gave him a very broad perspective on life. He was able to follow different paths, including those of a philosopher or a pastor, before deciding to paint. He was one of the most important artists of German expressionism. 

He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich but the atmosphere there was too oppressive for his taste and he did not stay. He met several animal painters in 1905, including Jean-Bloe Niestle. Animals were his first love. He started drawing the first pictures of horses in 1907. He was introduced to Marie Schnur, a painter with whom he married in 1907. He divorced his wife and married Maria Franck in 1913. He was an animal painter, pastel engraver, watercolourist, lithographer and writer, and a member of the Der Blaue Reiter group.

In 1907 he returned to Paris (after his first trip to Paris at a young age) and was influenced by the work of Van Gogh and Gauguin. His palette became clearer, and in 1909, through a meeting with August Macke, he began to make a name for himself and became acquainted with various artists, as well as with the famous collector Bernhard Koehler. In 1910 he moved to Indersdorf near Dachau.

In 1911 he met Wassily Kandinsky, with whom he founded Der Blaue Reiter, a group of avant-garde artists. He stopped painting outdoors and his palette became more subjective. He began to paint his famous Blue Horse. In 1912, influenced by an exhibition of Italian Futurism and the paintings of Robert Delaunay, he turned to abstraction, his first work exclusively in this style being Composition I, painted in December 1913. His other recognised paintings include Dog Lying in the Snow and The Tiger. He died in March 1916 in Braquis, near Verdun, and was buried in Bavaria.