Franz Marc Prints

Franz Marc Prints are beautiful examples of contemporary German art from a painter who played a big role in the rise of the expressionist art movement

The rise of Marc itself came about in the early 20th century, alongside the likes of Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke who were also closely connected to him.

This website offers all his best paintings as prints below and helps you to not only discover more of his works that you had not previously seen, but also to buy prints of them online from our recommended art retail store that we use ourselves regularly.

Franz Marc as an expressionist who typically included animals within his works such as cats, horses and foxes, has been compared closely to cubists such as Pablo Picasso because of the abstract and mixed up composition of his figures.

This attention to emotion and character rather than simply reproducing the exact appearance of the subject is what best characterises modern art.

This artist managed to find a good balance between making the subject clear to the viewer, whilst still using abstract, expressive shapes to compose it.

The contemporary nature of Franz Marc's paintings were not to the liking of the German Nazi party who sadly ordered the removal of many of his paintings from famous German museums and galleries of the time, and a similar treatment was dished out to many other notable artists of this period who were located in Germany at that time. It is common for artists displaying new styles, techniques and thoughts on art to come up against opposition, but this was obviously more aggressive and destructive than what normally occurs.

A key aspect of the symbolism of Franz Marc's prints is the choice of colour for each individual work, each combination to give it's own description of the portrait being included. For example, Marc would use large amounts of blue to create a feeling of masculinity and spirituality as seen in the Blue Horses. Yellow was used regularly in others to create a tone of feminine joy in those paintings, whilst red was used to give an atmostphere of aggression and danger. Once you understand this, many of his prints make a little more sense when seen as a series of works.

The success of Franz Marc can be seen in the records that his paintings have held at various times for sales over the past few years, including several that have reached the millions of pounds, making them the most expensive German contemporary paintings at the time of each sale. This is due to the reputation of the artist as well as the saleability of the art movement in which he was involved. The records look set to rise in the future as more of his works become available, though most will remain off the market for some time to come because of the importance that they hold.

One of the reasons for why Franz Marc is so well remembered is because of the connections that he kept within the changing art world, counting Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke as close allies in his desire for development in the art movements to include their favoured techniques. Franz Marc was actually a founding member of the super famous Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group of artists who remain key topics of study for artists today who are looking to understand how art developed into the new types that we have today.

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List of famous Franz Marc Prints

Some of the greatest works by Franz Marc are shown below, all following his typically expressionist and abstract style which has attracted many to his career over generations. The full list of paintings by this artist runs into the hundreds but we include a summary of the best known ones below.

• Animal Destinies
• Animals in Landscape
• Bathing Girls
• Birds
• Birth of the Horses
• Blue Black Fox
• Blue Horse
• Broken Forms
• Cats
• Colorful Flowers
• A Dog, a Fox and a Cat
• Cottages on the Dachau Marsh
• Cows Yellow Red Green
• Crouching Deer
• Dead Deer
• Deer at Dusk
• Deer in a Monastery Garden
• Deer in the Forest
• Deer in the Snow
• Dog Lying in the Snow
• Donkey Frieze
• Dreaming Horses
• Fabulous Beast II
• Fairy Animals
• Fighting Forms
• Foxes
• Gazelles
• Grazing Horses
• The Red Horses
• Haystacks in the Snow
• Horse Asleep
• Horse in a Landscape
• In the Rain
• Indersdorf
• Jumping Dog
• Schlick
• Larch Sapling
• Large Lenggries Horse Painting
• Long Yellow Horse
• Monkey Frieze
• Mountain Goats
• Mountains
• Rocky Way Landscape
• Nude with Cat
• Picture with Cattle
• Pigs Playing Dogs
• Portrait of the Artist's Mother
• Rain
• Red and Blue Horse
• Red Deer
• Ruhende KuheKauernder Steir
• Saint Julian l'Hospitalier
• Seated Mythical Animal
• Sheaf of Grain
• Shepherds
• Siberian Sheepdogs
• Sleeping Animals
• Sleeping Deer
• Small Composition
• Small Horse Picture
• Small Horse Study
• Stables
• The Dead Sparrow
• The Enchanted Mill
• The First Animals
• The Large Blue Horses
• The Little Blue Horse
• The Little Yellow Horses
• The Mandrill
• The Monkey
• The Steer
• The Bull
• The Tower of Blue Horses
• The Unfortunate Land of Tyrol
• The Waterfall
• The Wolves Balkan War
• The Yellow Cow
• Three Animals Dog Fox and Cat
• Three Horses
• Tiger
• Two Blue Horses
• Two Cats Blue and Yellow
• Two Horses
• Two Women on the Hillside Sketch
• Tyrol
• Weasels at Play
• Wild Pigs boar and Sow
• Woman in the Wind by the Sea
• Woodcutter
• Young Boy with a Lamb

Further Expressionist Print Artists

Franz Marc was an integral member of the expressionist art movement, but there are many other painters from this sector that are also highly skilled and innovative and as such well worth studying too.

Wassily Kandinsky is one the best to take note of as his work helped bring about the whole expressionist movement during the early 20th century. We include the most famous expressionist artists below:

• Wassily Kandinsky
• Theophilus Brown
• Paul Wonner
• James Weeks
• Hassel Smith
• Nathan Oliveira
• Bruce McGaw
• Joan Brown
• Manuel Neri
• Joan Savo
• Roland Peterson
• Louise Bourgeois
• Hans Burkhardt
• Mary Callery
• Nicolas Carone
• Willem de Kooning
• Jackson Pollock
• Dan Christensen
• Robert Beauchamp
• Elaine de Kooning
• Robert Goodnough
• Grace Hartigan
• Lester Johnson
• Alex Katz
• George McNeil
• Jan Muller
• Fairfield Porter
• Gregorio Prestopino
• Larry Rivers
• Bob Thompson
• Georges Mathieu
• Hans Hartung
• Nicolas de Staël