Marc overcame his depression in his search for spirituality through his art. He Founded the Blaue Reiter with Kandinsky , but , sadly , his life was cut short by the Great War .
Franz Marc was born in munich on 8 february 1880 , the younger of two brothers. According to his first biographer , he was Such an ugly baby that his father , Wilhelm , almost fainted upon seeing him . Wilhelm was a painter of modest talents specializing in romantic landscapes and interiors . Which his wife , Sophie , came from q strict Calvinist background and had been employed as governess to his sister's children. The boy's grandparents were also amateur painters and came from aristocratic stock .
As a child , franz was quiet, studious and introverted . in family circles, he was called 'the little philosopher and although his father taught him to drow at an althought his father taught him to draw at an early age, it was always assumed that he would pursue a more conventional career. like his brother , Franz attended the lautpold Gymnasium in Munich. After passing his theology exams in 1899, his intention was to enrol at the University and evantually enter the priesthood. however , the uncertainty and self-doubt that were to afflict him for so many years were already in evidence. Which carrying out his military service at an artillery camp in Lechfeld , Marc suddenly made the decision to become an artist.
His choice was not welcomed at home. his father, naturally, could not object to painting as a career, but opposed Franz's move for the infinitely more damnig reason that he did not feel his son was sufficiently talented to make a success of it. this lack of faith affected Marc deeply. Nevertheless, in 1900, Marc entered the Munich Academy, where he studied for three years in the drawing classes of Gabriel Hackl and the painting studio of Wilhelm von Diez, the Academy's teaching was firmly rooted in the naturalist tradition and, accordingly , Marc's earliest portraits and landscapes were executed in this manner.
The artist's personal style was painfully slow in evolving and, unlike most painters, he did not initially respond to the stimulus of travel.In 1903 , the generosity of a fellow student at the Academy .