About Franz Marc

... About Franz Marc Franz Marc (1880-1916) was born in Munich, Germany. His father had studied law but at his birth worked as a professor in painting at the Munich Academy. He served one year in the military. Coming back with the degree of a corporal, he decides to study painting at the Academy of Munich. Later in 1910, he gets to know Wassily Kandinsky, who becomes his close friend. In 1911 (and 1912), Marc creates his most famous horse paintings and exhibits, together with Kandinsky. Marc's wonderful paintings become more abstract in 1913 and, a year later, are abstract color fantasies. At the outbreak of the First World War, Marc immediately registers as an officer in the reserve. First, he instructs recruits and, at the end of the same month, is sent to the Western front in the Alsace (as a messenger rider). In September, he becomes ill with dysentery and on

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