Franz Marc

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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.


— Franz Marc


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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.


— Franz Marc


#natural #spectral #today #tomorrow #will

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.


— Franz Marc


#conventional #created #everything #exterior #genuine

Religions die slowly.


— Franz Marc


#religions #slowly

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.


— Franz Marc


#behind #hidden #inner #look #nature

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.


— Franz Marc


#mood #rather #staunch #true






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Marriage and family
During his twenties Marc was involved in a number of stormy relationships including a years-long affair with Annette von Eckardt a married antique dealer who was nine years older than him. In 1912 Marc met Robert Delaunay whose use of color and futurist method was a major influence on Marc's work. Franz Marc's best-known painting is probably Tierschicksale (also known as Animal Destinies or Fate of the Animals) which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. Franz Marc (February 8 1880 – March 4 1916) was a German painter and printmaker one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement.