Artist Monograph

Franz Marc, German

German, 1880–1916

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Woodcut	9	50%
Watercolor	5	27.8%
Oil Painting	1	5.6%
Lithography	1	5.6%
Drawing	1	5.6%
Tempera	1	5.6%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	17	94.4%
Painting & Sculpture	1	5.6%

Classification Types

Print — 14
Drawing — 2
Painting — 1
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	17	94.4%
Large (1–3 m)	1	5.6%

Range: 6.9 cm → 141.3 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1940	3
1950	1
1951	1
1952	2
1953	2
1956	5
1964	1
1965	1
1981	1
1988	1

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 18 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Bookplate Daniel Pesl I (Exlibris Daniel Pesl I) Print Acc. 674.1956	(1901)	Lithograph	Sheet 3 7/16 x 3 7/16" (8.7 x 9.0 cm) Comp. 2 13/16 x 2 13/16" (7.1 x 7.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Bookplate (Exlibris) Print Acc. 671.1956	(c. 1902)	Lithograph with watercolor additions	composition (irreg. ): 4 3/8 x 1 3/16" (11.1 x 3 cm); sheet: 5 1/16 x 1 7/8" (12.9 x 4.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Bookplate Daniel Pesl II (Exlibris Daniel Pesl II) Print Acc. 670.1956	(c. 1902)	Lithograph with watercolor additions	composition (irreg. ): 4 1/4 x 1 1/8" (10.8 x 2.8 cm); sheet: 5 1/16 x 1 7/8" (12.9 x 4.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Bookplate Paul Marc I (Ex Libris Paul Marc I) Print Acc. 672.1956	(1902)	Lithograph with watercolor additions	composition (irreg. ): 2 11/16 x 2 1/8" (6.9 x 5.4 cm); sheet: 3 7/16 x 2 15/16" (8.8 x 7.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Book Plate Franz Marc II (Ex Libris Franz Marc II) Print Acc. 673.1956	(1905)	Lithograph with watercolor additions	composition: 2 13/16 x 2 13/16" (7.1 x 7.2 cm); sheet: 3 7/16 x 3 9/16" (8.7 x 9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Horses Resting (Ruhende Pferde) Print Acc. 416.1940	1911	Woodcut	composition: 6 5/8 x 9 1/16" (16.8 x 23 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 3/4" (28.6 x 40 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Fantastic Creature (Fabeltier) (plate preceding page 1) from Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) Illustrated Book Acc. 20.1981.2	1912	Woodcut with tempera additions from an illustrated book with two woodcuts	composition: 5 3/4 x 8 11/16" (14.6 x 22.1 cm); page: 7 5/16 x 9 13/16" (18.5 x 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the Helen Acheson Bequest
Lizards (Eidechsen) Print Acc. 414.1940	(1912)	Woodcut	composition: 3 3/8 x 3 3/8" (8.6 x 8.6 cm); sheet: 7 5/16 x 5 9/16" (18.6 x 14.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (by exchange)
Steer (Stier) Print Acc. 30.1952	(1912)	Woodcut	composition (irreg. ): 6 5/16 x 8 3/4" (16 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 9/16" (23.2 x 29.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Three Animals (Drei Tiere) Print Acc. 417.1940	(1912)	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 6 5/8 x 5 11/16" (16.9 x 14.5 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8" (29.8 x 23.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Tigers (Tiger) Print Acc. 348.1951	(1912)	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 x 9 1/2" (20 x 24.1 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 1/8" (28.6 x 35.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Birth of the Wolves (Geburt der Wölfe) Print Acc. 264.1953	(1913)	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 9 13/16 x 7 3/8" (25 x 18.7 cm); sheet: 16 7/16 x 11 3/4" (41.7 x 29.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
Blue Horse with Rainbow (Blaues Pferd mit Regenbogen) Drawing Acc. 2.1964	1913	Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper	6 1/2 x 10 1/4" (16.5 x 26 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John S. Newberry Collection
Elephant (Elefant) Drawing Acc. 633.1965	1913	Pencil on paper	6 x 4 1/2" (15.2 x 11.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Julia Feininger
Lion Hunt After Delacroix (Löwenjagd nach Delacroix) Print Acc. 29.1952	(1913)	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 9 3/8 x 10 11/16" (23.8 x 27.2 cm); sheet: 11 7/8 x 13 15/16" (30.2 x 35.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Riding School After Ridinger (Reitschule nach Ridinger) Print Acc. 413.1940	(1913)	Woodcut	Composition: 10 9/16 x 11 3/4" (26.9 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 12 13/16 x 14 3/4" (32.5 x 37.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
The World Cow Painting Acc. 118.1988	1913	Oil on canvas	27 7/8 x 55 5/8" (70.7 x 141.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Maremont (both by exchange)
Genesis II (Schöpfungsgeschichte II) from The First Portfolio (Die erste Mappe) Print Acc. 265.1953	(1914, posthumously printed and published 1921)	Woodcut	composition: 9 7/16 x 7 15/16" (23.9 x 20.2 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 13 3/4" (50 x 35 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Katherine S. Dreier Bequest

The Met (CC0 Open Access) — 2 records

Title / Object	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Culture / Geography	Department	Rights
The Riding School Print Wikidata	1913	Woodcut	block: 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (27 x 29 cm)		Drawings and Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists" [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the portfolio Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler] Print Wikidata	1914 (posthumously printed in 1921 and published in 1922)	Woodcut	block: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24 x 19.5 cm)		Drawings and Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata