# Franz Marc

> His animals glow in colors the natural world never gave them — electric blues, impossible yellows — because Franz Marc painted what he believed animals felt, not what humans saw. That belief made him a pillar of German Expressionism and later, posthumously, a target of the Nazis.

*German artist (1880–1916)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1880-02-08
- **Died:** 1916-03-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was born 8 February 1880, a German painter and printmaker who became a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal that grew into a circle of collaborating artists. His mature work turned almost entirely to animals rendered in bright, unnatural colors — an attempt to see through their eyes rather than impose human perspective. The German Army drafted him when World War I began; he died at the Battle of Verdun on 4 March 1916, two years into the war. In the 1930s the Nazis declared him a degenerate artist and suppressed his work, but most of it survived World War II. His paintings now hang in eminent galleries worldwide, and in 2022 Die Füchse sold for £42,654,500.

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