and printmaker
, one of the key figures of the German
Expressionist movement. 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 was born in 1880 in Munich
, then the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria
. His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter, and his mother Sophie was a strict Calvinist.
Art is metaphysical... it will liberate itself from human ends.
Pure art..pursues no purpose at all but is simply a metaphysical art of creation,proud and entirely 'of and for itself'.
New ideas are hard to understand only because they are unfamiliar.
In this time of great struggle for a new art we fight..against an old established power.The battle seems unequal,but spiritual matters are never decided by numbers,only by the power of ideas.
I found people ugly very early on;animals seemed to me more beautiful.
Another instinct led me away from animals towards abstraction,which excites me even more.
It is by no means necessary to have complementary colours appear in the order they follow in the prism;rather they can be 'distanced' as far as you like.
Music and painting are basically the same you only have to have the organ to detect it.
I've been an artist all my life,but education and environment and my own disposition have meant I have been half-minister and half-philogian.I would probably never have had the peace of mind as an artist had I not pursued these two other ideals at their respective times.