Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

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.