Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck (12 June 1876 - 25 January 1955), was a German artist. She is also known as the wife of the painter

Franz Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later b ...

Biography

She was born on 12 June 1876 in Berlin, Germany. She attended the ''Unterrichtanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseum'', the ''Königliche Akademie der Künste'' (Royal Academy of Arts,Berlin), and the ''Damen-Akademie des Künstlerinnen-Vereins'' (Ladies Academy of the Artists' Association, Munich). She met the artist

in 1905, marrying him in 1913. Her work was included in the first exhibition of the

Blauer Reiter ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider) is a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name, first published in mid-May ...

group. After Franz Marc's death she studied textile art at the

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...

. Maria Marc died on 25 January 1955 in Ried, Bavaria. Her work is in

MoMA Moma may refer to: People * Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist * Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician * Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher Places ; Ang ...

German Expressionist German Expressionism () consisted of several related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central ...

collection.

References

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images of Marc's work
in MoMA's German Expressionist collection 1876 births 1955 deaths Artists from Berlin 20th-century German women artists Franz Marc {{Germany-artist-stub