# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-marc
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:38:58.613Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.