Art - Franz Marc

Marc lived very shortly, he was killed in the First World War. During his career as a painter, he was very popular.
Franz Marc was born in Munich in 1880 and his mother was orthodox religious. Influenced by the woman, the young and serious Marc wanted to study theology, but he changed his mind and attended at the University of Munich, where he would have studied literature. First he had to fulfill his compulsory service and after he had done that, he changed his mind for the second time; he became an artist. Marc went to the art academy in Munich and visited Paris in 1903.
A depression slowed down his artistic creativity. Marc tried to devote himself to his work, to get out of his depression, but it didn't help much. In this state of mind he engaged, but he fled to Paris on the day of the marriage.
His period of depression ended there and his interest for art revived, he was by then influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Marc gave lessons until 1910, to earn some money, but in that year things changed. The painter met August Macke and together with him he discovered the art of the Fauves (Matisse, Derain and De Vlaminck). In the same year he was asked to become a member of the Neue Kunstlervereinigung and met the leading figure of that movement, Wassily Kandinsky.
Marc had developed his mature style at that time, color was very important in his work. He connected emotional expressions with different colors (Blue for spirituality, sensibility; Yellow for sensuality and cheerfulness; etc.) Together with Kandinsky he organized the first exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter, Marc was also responsible for the publishing of the 'Blaue Reiter Almanak' and 'Über das Geistige in der Kunst', a manifest by Kandinsky.
Franz Marc met Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912 and organized a second exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter.
Not long after those events Marc's art became almost totally abstract.
The First World War changed everything, the promising and influential painter was killed by a grenade in 1916.