Franz Marc
Franz Marc
Franz Marcwas a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 February 1880
CityMunich, Germany
CountryGermany
art style needs
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.
appearance confront interrupt last learned objects possess reflection sensible silent thousand wish
Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?
dies
Religions die slowly.
light attention someday
Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.
today tomorrow natural
What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
lovely tradition
Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
dream father moving
Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.
art mind guarantees
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.
letting-go dream art
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.
spiritual veils today
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.
eye animal ideas
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
spiritual blue two
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
art animal looks
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being
europe mood champagne
We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.