Chances are, you've owned a poster or sent a postcard with Franz Marc's art on it. His take on nature was radical, but beautiful. Marc was born 140 years ago, on February 8, 1880.

This new wave of art and artists also had a strong presence in Germany. Franz Marc (1880-1916), a native of Munich, was one of the prominent artists arising in Germany. The son of a minor landscape ...

Elsewhere, the correspondences with other artworks and artists will literally jump out at you, as with Marc’s joyful romp, “The Yellow Cow” (1911).

Marc's three colours are repeated through three archetypal animal forms, the horse, the cow and the deer. The Large Blue Horses by Franz Marc. The Yellow Cow is Marc's homage to womanhood.

This new wave of art and artists also had a strong presence in Germany. Franz Marc (1880-1916), a native of Munich, was one of the prominent artists arising in Germany. The son of a minor landscape ...