Franz Marc (1880-1916)

Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently expressed the pain and trauma of war.

Notable Work

In work such as his celebrated Fate of the Animals, Marc created a raw emotional expression of primitive violence which he called a premonition of the war, which would eventually be the cause of his own untimely death at the age of 36.