Wilhelm Marc

Franz Marc cutting wood , around 1895, Franz Marc Museum , Kochel am See

Moriz Eduard Wilhelm Marc (born October 9, 1839 in Landshut , † May 26, 1907 in Munich ) was a German painter .

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Wilhelm Marc came from a family of civil servants in Upper Bavaria. He lost his parents, the lawyer Moritz August Marc (1799–1852) and his wife Pauline von Pelkhoven (1806–1843), when he was a child. At the request of his uncle and guardian Maximilian of Pelkhoven he studied from 1858 until Jura . After graduating, he studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich from 1863 .

Marc devoted himself to landscape and genre painting . His teacher was Erich Correns , with whom he made one of his three trips to Italy in 1870. In 1868 and 1877 he also toured the country. Years of carefree travel and artist life followed from 1870 to 1877. He stayed in various parts of Germany, explored Alsace-Lorraine, Austria and Hungary and visited St. Petersburg in Russia several times . Marc converted to Protestantism in 1895 , after one of his ancestors had converted from the Jewish to the Catholic faith in 1800 . At the end of the 1880s, Marc fell ill with multiple sclerosis , was therefore unable to work from 1894 and received an artist pension of 750 marks a year.

His work is attributed to the Munich School . Commissioned by King Ludwig II , he created paintings for the castles of Linderhof (painting of the Hubertus Pavilion, today destroyed) and Herrenchiemsee (ceiling painting in the war hall, based on the ceiling painting by Charles Le Brun in the Palace of Versailles).

Wilhelm Marc was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and exhibited regularly at world exhibitions, so u. a. 1876 in Philadelphia / USA or 1888 in Melbourne / Australia. He took part in around 60 exhibitions at home and abroad.

His famous son Franz Marc was the second child of Marc and his wife Sophie, born in Alsace. Maurice (1847–1926) born. The older son Paul Marc (1877-1949) was a Byzantinist .

literature

Bringfriede Baumann: The Munich painter Wilhelm Marc 1839–1907. Monograph with catalog raisonné. Uni-Druck, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-387821-211-9 (= dissertation 1985)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Marc - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wilhelm Marc in the artist lexicon of Werdenfelser Land. ( online ( Memento from May 16, 2003 in the Internet Archive ))
Wilhelm Marc on artnet

Individual evidence

^ Brigitte Roßbeck: Wilhelm and Franz Marc. "Papa shouldn't be frightened: if he were young he would be like me ...". In: Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau (ed.): Fathers & Sons. Confrontation and consonance. Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Geiger. Exhibition catalog. Munich 2016, pp. 12–45, here pp. 13–14.
^ Matriculation book of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Wilhelm Marc, 1862. Retrieved on July 21, 2019 .
^ Bringfriede Baumann: The Munich painter Wilhelm Marc 1839-1907. Monograph with catalog raisonné. Munich 1986, pp. 22-37.
↑ Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider (eds.): Franz Marc. Paul Klee. Dialogue in pictures. Franz Marc Museum June 27 to October 3, 2010; Moritzburg Foundation October 24 to January 9, 2011; Zentrum Paul Klee January 28 to May 1, 2011. Nimbus, Art and Books, Wädenswil 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813534-1-9 , p. 198.
↑ Quoted from: Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land.
↑ Elisabeth Schröder: Franz Marc (1880–1916) and his painter Wilhelm Marc (1839–1907) , In: Expressionismus, Väter und Söhne , Issue 11, Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2020, pp. 66–80, here p. 66.
^ Brigitte Roßbeck: Wilhelm and Franz Marc. "Papa shouldn't be frightened: if he were young he would be like me ...". In: Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau (ed.): Fathers & Sons. Confrontation and consonance. Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Geiger. Exhibition catalog. Munich 2016, pp. 12–45, here p. 18.

personal data
SURNAME	Marc, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marc, Moriz Eduard Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landshut
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1907
Place of death	Munich

[1] Brigitte Roßbeck: Wilhelm and Franz Marc. "Papa shouldn't be frightened: if he were young he would be like me ...". In: Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau (ed.): Fathers & Sons. Confrontation and consonance. Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Geiger. Exhibition catalog. Munich 2016, pp. 12–45, here pp. 13–14.

[2] Matriculation book of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Wilhelm Marc, 1862. Retrieved on July 21, 2019 .

[3] Bringfriede Baumann: The Munich painter Wilhelm Marc 1839-1907. Monograph with catalog raisonné. Munich 1986, pp. 22-37.

[4] Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider (eds.): Franz Marc. Paul Klee. Dialogue in pictures. Franz Marc Museum June 27 to October 3, 2010; Moritzburg Foundation October 24 to January 9, 2011; Zentrum Paul Klee January 28 to May 1, 2011. Nimbus, Art and Books, Wädenswil 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813534-1-9 , p. 198.

[5] Quoted from: Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land.

[6] Elisabeth Schröder: Franz Marc (1880–1916) and his painter Wilhelm Marc (1839–1907) , In: Expressionismus, Väter und Söhne , Issue 11, Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2020, pp. 66–80, here p. 66.

[7] Brigitte Roßbeck: Wilhelm and Franz Marc. "Papa shouldn't be frightened: if he were young he would be like me ...". In: Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau (ed.): Fathers & Sons. Confrontation and consonance. Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Geiger. Exhibition catalog. Munich 2016, pp. 12–45, here p. 18.