Franz Marc was an integral member of the Blaue Reiter movement, along with Wassily Kandinsky. Unlike the other Blaue Reiter artists, Marc chose to paint animals more than any other subject. He had an ...
Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard ...
When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for their Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Kandinsky had an amusingly simple ...