Editing Franz Marc (section)

==Career==
[[File:Marc, Franz - Blue Horse I - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|Blaues Pferd I, ''[[Blue Horse I]]'' (1911)]]
In 1906, Marc traveled with his elder brother Paul, a [[Byzantine]] expert, to [[Thessaloniki]], [[Mount Athos]], and various other Greek locations. A few years later, in 1910, Marc developed an important friendship with the artist [[August Macke]]. In 1910 Marc painted ''Nude with Cat'' and ''Grazing Horses'', and showed works in the second exhibition of the ''[[Neue Künstlervereinigung]]'' (New Artists' Association, of which Marc was briefly a member) at the [[Thannhauser Galleries]] in [[Munich]].<ref name="Carl_2013">{{cite book |first1=Klaus H. |last1=Carl |first2=Franz |last2=Marc |author2-link=Franz Marc |title=Franz Marc |publisher=Parkstone Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1781602546 |oclc=1003608626 }}</ref>

===Der Blaue Reiter===
In 1911, Marc founded the ''[[Der Blaue Reiter]]'' journal, which became the center of an artist circle, along with Macke, [[Wassily Kandinsky]], and others who had decided to split off from the ''Neue Künstlervereinigung'' movement. Though  Marc showed several of his works in the first ''Der Blaue Reiter'' exhibition at the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912, as it was the apex of the German [[expressionist]] movement, the exhibit also showed in Berlin, Cologne, Hagen, and Frankfurt. In 1912, Marc met [[Robert Delaunay]], whose use of color and the [[Cubist]] method was a major influence on Marc's work; fascinated by [[Futurism (art)|Futurism]] and Cubism, Marc created art that increasingly was stark in nature, painting natural abstract forms which found spiritual value in color.<ref>{{cite web |title=Der Blaue Reiter |trans-title=The Blue Rider |url=https://www.theartstory.org/movement/der-blaue-reiter/ |website=The Art Story |access-date=8 January 2021 }}</ref> He painted ''The Tiger'' and ''Red Deer'' in 1912 and ''[[The Tower of Blue Horses]]'', ''[[The Foxes (painting)|The Foxes]]'', and ''[[Fate of the Animals]]'' in 1913.<ref name="Carl_2013"/>

===Wartime===
[[File:Military NACHLASS of the painter Franz Marc.jpg|thumb|The military person's estate of Franz Marc on display in a museum]]
With the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914, Marc was drafted into the [[Imperial German Army]] as a cavalryman. By February 1916, as shown in a letter to his wife, he had gravitated to [[military camouflage]]. His technique for hiding artillery from aerial observation was to paint canvas covers in broadly [[pointillist]] style. He took pleasure in creating a series of nine such tarpaulin covers in styles varying "from [[Manet]] to [[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]]", suspecting that the latter could be the most effective against aircraft flying at {{convert|2000|m}} or higher.<ref>{{cite book | title=Camouflage | publisher=Thames and Hudson / Imperial War Museum | author=Newark, Tim | year=2007 | pages=68}}</ref>

By 1916, he had been promoted to lieutenant and awarded the [[Iron Cross]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Sonny |title=From the Clairière de l'Armistice to Franz Marc |url=https://www.grayssportingjournal.com/from-the-clairiere-de-larmistice-to-franz-marc/ |website=Gray's Sporting Journal |access-date=12 June 2023 |date=27 September 2021}}</ref>

After mobilization of the German Army, the government identified notable artists to be withdrawn from combat for their own safety. Marc was on the list but was struck in the head and killed instantly by a shell splinter during the [[Battle of Verdun]] in 1916 before orders for reassignment could reach him.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dantini |first=Michele |title=Modern & Contemporary Art |publisher=Sterling Publishing |year=2008 |translator-first=Timothy |translator-last=Stroud |isbn=978-1402759215 |oclc=1194440434 |page=29 }}</ref>