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Franz Marc

68 works

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German Expressionist painter and a founder of Der Blaue Reiter, known for animals, above all horses, painted in strong symbolic colors. Read more

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Watercolor of a black and a white horse before colorful mountains, a red tree and a rainbow arching over yellow suns.

Black and white horse in mountain landscape with rainbow

1911

Painting of a blue cat and a yellow cat with swirling colours, a green ball, red leaves and a white house behind them.

Two Cats, Blue and Yellow

1912

Abstract painting of mountain goats among fragmented colorful shapes in green, blue, yellow and red.

The Little Mountain Goats

1914

Yellow dog with closed eyes lying on blue-shadowed snow beneath green trees, painted in bold, angular brushstrokes.

Dog Lying in the Snow

1911

Painting of a sleeping blue-black fox curled on green grass beside a tree, with bright yellow hills and blue water behind.

Fox

1911

Painting of a blue horse with its head lowered, set against colorful rounded hills and green plants.

Blue Horse I

1911

Painting of deer in a forest rendered in angular blue, red and green planes, by Franz Marc, 1914.

Rehe im Walde II

1914

Painting of three nude women bathing among trees and a white rock, rendered in loose green, blue and yellow brushstrokes.

Badende Frauen

1910

Painting of a white waterfall beside a red waterwheel, with birds, a fox drinking below, and angular colorful buildings.

The Bewitched Mill

1913

Loose oil sketch of misty fir trees on a green hillside under a grey sky.

Nebel zwischen Tannen

1905

Painting of two pale dogs standing in snow with blue shadows and bare twigs, rendered in loose brushwork.

Siberian Dogs in the Snow

1909/1910

Franz Marc painting of colorful stylized trees, rolling hills, and two reddish weasels with white markings in the grass.

Weasels at Play

1911

Abstract painting of sheep in fragmented, colorful forms of green, yellow, blue and red with black outlines.

The Sheep

1913

Painting of a white bull resting its head on its leg among blue and green angular shapes and foliage.

White Bull

1911

Painting of a nude boy kneeling in green water, holding a pale lamb over his shoulders against red and pink shapes.

Young Boy with a Lamb; The Good Shepherd

1911

Abstracted watercolor of a blue and green horse in a landscape of red, grey and dark shapes within a black border.

Green Horse in Landscape

1912

Franz Marc's Dreaming Horse: a blue horse lying down amid angular diagonal shapes in blue, green, red and black.

Dreaming Horse

1913

Abstract painting of a striped orange tiger among fragmented blue, green and yellow shapes suggesting a jungle.

Tiger in the Jungle

1912

Painting of two deer lying down, one red and one yellow-green, among angular blue, green, and brown color planes.

Two Deer Lying Down

1912

Abstract painting of two red foxes made of angular overlapping planes of red, blue, green, and yellow.

The Foxes

1913

Painting of deer resting among birch trees in a colorful, fractured forest with swirling red and white forms.

Deer in the Forest I

1913

Painting of two nude women resting among colorful, stylized tree trunks beneath a yellow sky and blue hills.

Nudes under Trees

1911

Oil painting of misty hills with dark trees, green meadows and heavy clouds, with a small patch of blue sky.

Aufsteigende Nebel

1903

Loose oil sketch of two brown horses, one grazing, against a dense green background of trees and grass.

Pferdeskizze II

1906

Painting of several red deer in a green landscape under white clouds, with a sprig of leaves in the foreground.

Rote Rehe II

1912

Framed oil painting of a pale snowy landscape with a dark water pool and rolling hills, loosely brushed.

Wassertümpel

1906

Oil painting of a heath with pink flowering shrubs and dark trees under a pale sky, in a dark wooden frame.

Heidekraut

1902

Painting of a woman in a black dress seated on a green bench in a snowy landscape under a grey sky.

Frau in Winterlandschaft

1906

Abstract painting of a horse-like creature built from angular blue, red, green and orange planes by Franz Marc.

Mythical creature II (horse)

1913

Abstract painting of swirling blue and green curved forms with a central animal head in bold, fragmented color planes.

The mandrill

1913

Abstract painting of a red animal form clashing with a dark blue swirling form, with yellow and green streaks around them.

Fighting forms

1914

Abstract painting of fragmented blue, yellow, and red angular forms with radiating light and diagonal black lines.

Tirol

1914

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German Expressionist painter and a founder of Der Blaue Reiter, known for animals, above all horses, painted in strong symbolic colors. He was killed at Verdun in 1916. Browse 68 works by Franz Marc from 29 museums, free to download in HD.