Franz Marc
1880–1916 · The Blue Rider · 6 works
Franz Marc, born in 1880, made animals his main subject. He once asked how nature might look through the eyes of an animal. In 1911 he and Kandinsky started the Blue Rider and edited its almanac together. He volunteered when war came in 1914 and was killed at Verdun in 1916.
6 works · 1909–1914
1909–1912 · 3 works
Walk these 3This room starts at Murnau, where Gabriele Münter bought a house in 1909 and she and Kandinsky spent their summers, often with Jawlensky. In 1911 Kandinsky and Franz Marc started the Blue Rider, and August Macke and Paul Klee showed with them. Three works here come before the group began; Klee’s run on to 1920, after the war scattered it.
In the museum: The Blue Rider room · 2 works
1913–1914 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: The Blue Rider room · 2 works
August Macke
People by the Blue Lake, 1913
Paul Klee
Interieur mit der Uhr (Interior with the Clock), 1913
Vasily Kandinsky
Houses at Murnau, 1909
