The Franz Marc Museum is a museum located in

Kochel am See Kochel am See (, ) is a municipality and a town in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, on the shores of Kochelsee. The municipality consists of the Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried districts ...

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, dedicated to German Expressionist painter

Franz Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaking, printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose ...

. The museum shows paintings by

, and also works of art of his contemporaries and other important artists of the 20th century, in a permanent and in temporary exhibitions.

History

The Franz Marc Museum is a private institution, which was founded in 1986 to present the life and work of Marc, one of the most important artists of

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in the 20th century, in the place where he lived and which gave him so much inspiration. Kochel Franz-Marc-Museum 1

The museum exhibits 2000 works, including more than 150 works from the estate of Franz Marc, which are complemented with various loans. It also holds many of his personal items and written documents, as well works of art by some of his contemporary artists, such as

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

Max Pechstein Hermann Max Pechstein (31 December 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate A ...

Erich Heckel Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German people, German Painting, painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group ''Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competition ...

Max Beckmann Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, drawing, draftsman, printmaker, sculpture, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the m ...

Gabriele Münter Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding mem ...

and

Alexej von Jawlensky Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (; 13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941), surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association ( Neue Künstlervereinigung ...

. The exhibition illustrates the influence of

and his colleagues of the Expressionist group

Der Blaue Reiter ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (''The Blue Rider'') was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name ...

in contemporary art. In 2008, a new building was inaugurated, having been designed by Swiss architects Diethelm & Spillmann, and it opened up new possibilities for the museum's conception. It extended the exhibition space by around 700 m2, so that Marc's work could be put in the context of the 20th century art. Especially after the addition to the Franz Marc Bequest and the Franz Marc Foundation of the collection of the Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation, it became possible to showcase the work of Marc with the some of his other contemporaries, such as from the artists from the other German Expressionist group Brücke, and also post-World War II German and French artists, like

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...

Per Kirkeby Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 – 9 May 2018) was a Danish Painting, painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. His works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in many important public collections, including the Tate, Metropolitan Museum ...

and

Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor and Graphic arts, graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his Figurative art, figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his ...

. The museum continuously changes the displays of the collection, which provides new insights about Marc's work and his influence in German contemporary art. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the artist's death, on 4 March 2016, the museum dedicated him an exhibition trilogy, under the collective title "Franz Marc - Between Utopia and Apocalypse" (''Franz Marc – Zwischen Utopie und Apokalypse''), each one called, respectively, "The Poor Country of Tirol", "Grazing Horses" and "Fighting Forms". The museum also holds periodically exhibitions dedicated to contemporary artists. It inaugurated recently the exhibition "Blauer Reiter-Das Moment der Abstraktion", dedicated to the

Blaue Reiter ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (''The Blue Rider'') was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name ...

artists and how they paved the way to abstraccionism. The Franz Marc Museum is part of the MuSeen Landscape Expressionism (''MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus''), in

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, together with the Museum der Phantasie ("Buchheim Museum"), in

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, the Museum Penzberg, the Schloßmuseum Murnau (Castle Museum Murnau), and the Municipal Gallery

Lenbachhaus The Lenbachhaus () is a building housing the Städtische Galerie (English: Municipal Gallery) art museum in Munich's ''Kunstareal''. The building The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between ...

, in

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Friends of the Franz Marc Museum

The Friends of the Franz Marc Museum is an association that sponsors exhibitions on Franz Marc, artists of Der Blaue Reiter or Die Brücke, as well as on abstract art of the 20th century, especially German post-World War II art. Their commitment enables them to buy works of art to supplement the collections of the Franz Marc Museum. They also support the development of new placement services to promote understanding of art and to show their contexts and backgrounds. In addition, they facilitate series of talks, events and symposia, scientific conferences on 20th-century art and cultural history, and publications documenting these events or presenting new research results. They also promote cultural events such as readings or concerts and support placement services for non-educated sections of the population and young people.

Works

Some of the best known works of the museum are:''Franz Marc Museum: Die Sammlung'' (German), Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Hardcover, 2019 SBN: 978-3-7774-3379-0 *Franz Marc, '' Hut in Dachau Moors'' (German: ''Moorhütten im Dachauer Moos''), 1902 *Franz Marc, ''Kleine Pferdestudie II'', 1905 *Franz Marc, '' Two Women on the Hillside'' (German: ''Zwei Frauen am Berg''), 1906 *Franz Marc, ''Hocken im Schnee'', 1911 *Franz Marc, ''Springendes Pferd'', 1912 *Franz Marc, ''Kleine Komposition IV'', 1914 *August Macke, ''Große Promenade'', 1914 *Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, ''Zwei Tänzerinnen'', 1910–11 *

Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born in S ...

, ''Figur in absoluter Stellung'', 1919

References

External links

Franz Marc Museum Website
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Marc Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system ...

1986 establishments in West Germany

History

Friends of the Franz Marc Museum

Works

See also

References

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