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Artists›Franz Marc

Franz Marc

1880–1916

Munich, Germany

PaintingExpressionismCubismAbstract Art

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• Expressionism
• Cubism
• Abstract Art

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Collection in Focus | Modern European Currents

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

2025

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Drawing in Austria and Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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The Expressionist Idiom

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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Expressionism

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (39)

Zonder titel

1921 · lithography

Rijksmuseum

Two Mythical Animals (Zwei Fabeltiere)

1914 · woodcut in black on japan paper

block: 9.9 x 12.1 cm (3 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 16.5 x 22.7 cm (6 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Genesis II (Schopfungsgeschichte II)

1914 · woodcut in yellow, black, and green

National Gallery of Art

Genesis I

1914 · Woodcut in black on ivory Japanese paper

Image: 24 × 20 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 34.6 × 24.7 cm (13 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists" [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the portfolio Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler]

1914 · Woodcut

block: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24 x 19.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Genesis II (Schöpfungsgeschichte II) from The First Portfolio (Die erste Mappe)

1914 · Woodcut

composition: 9 7/16 x 7 15/16" (23.9 x 20.2 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 13 3/4" (50 x 35 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists" [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the portfolio Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler]

1914 · Woodcut

block: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24 x 19.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Horse

1913 · Pen and brush and black ink and gray wash, with graphite, on tan wove paper

22 × 16.6 cm (8 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Rijksmuseum

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National Gallery of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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