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Dec 5, 2022 · But why did he paint animals at a time when many of his contemporaries were edging ever closer to complete abstraction? Critics derided him for being too decorative and child-like, while some even openly laughed at his art on display in public galleries.
- Rosie Lesso
At that time he met the French artist, Jean Niestle, who was famous for painting animals. Niestle's animals were depicted with the same soft, expressive lines found in Japanese woodblock prints. Perhaps due to Niestle's influence, Marc started to depict animals in his own paintings as early as 1905.
- German
- February 8, 1880
- Munich, Germany
- March 4, 1916
Franz Marc’s 1910 call for the “animalization of art” stakes out the ground that he would harvest for the most fertile and productive years of his career. Before his early death in World War I, Marc used animal paintings to express a pantheistic vision of the harmony between animals and their natural environment.
Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker who is known for the intense mysticism of his paintings of animals. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an association of German Expressionist artists.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
One of Marc's best-known paintings is Tierschicksale (Animal Destinies or Fate of the Animals), which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Basel. Marc had completed the work in 1913, when "the tension of impending cataclysm had pervaded society", as one art historian noted. [12]
Nov 3, 2023 · The artist Franz Marc was just 36 years old when a piece of loose shrapnel struck him on the head and killed him instantly during the Battle of Verdun in 1916. What makes the incident more...
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Oct 14, 2023 · Shortly after Marc's death in 1916, Animal Destinies was damaged in a fire. A third of the painting was destroyed and subsequently restored by the painter Paul Klee, a close friend of Marc's.
