Franz Marc, Red Horses

Alpine Landscape with Rising Fog, 1903

Woman in the Wind by the Sea, 1907

Elephant, 1907

Foals at Pasture, 1909

Little Oak Tree, 1909

Reed-Stacks, 1909

Two Grey Cats (also known as Study of Cats II), 1909

Nudes on Vermilion (sketch), 1909-1910

Children’s Picture (also known as Cat behind a Tree), 1910-1911

Cat with Kittens, 1912

 

Tower of Blue Horses, 1913

Foxes, 1913

Animals in a Landscape, 1914

Fighting Forms (1914)

Red Horses

Franz Marc 100th anniversary postage stamp, Germany (2012)

Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

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Gabriele Münter, a German expressionist

Gabriele Münter (1877 Berlin - 1962 Murnau)

Sèvres, France (1906)

Fischerhaus (1908)

Study of a Hay Wagon (1908)

Vom Griesbraukeller (also known as Haus am Staffelsee) (1908)

View from her Brother´s House in Bonn (1908)

View of the Murnau Moor (1908)

Outskirts of Murnau (1908)

Haus am Staffelsee (1908)

Self-Portrait (ca. 1908)

Seelandschaft mit drei Kugelbäumen (c.1909)

Gehöft in Murnau - Homestead in Murnau (1909)

oli on cardboard 33 x 40.8 cm

A House in the Winter Sun (1909)

Three Houses in Murnau (1909)

A Portrait of a Young Woman in a Large Hat, 1909

Bergwiese (1910)

Landscape with White Wall (1910)

Landschaft mit Kühen (c.1912)

In Schwabing, 1912

Mai-Abend in Stockholm, 1916

Staffelsee (1920)

Staffelsee Landscape (1931)

See am Ostertag (1935)

Bäumende Wolke über der Burg - Bäumende cloud over the castle (1939) 

oil on canvas 73.5 x 54.6 cm

Road in a Multicolored October (1959)

School House in Murnau

Lac dans la montagne

Murnau

Stillleben Mit Roten Primeln

Murnau Burggraben, 1959-60

Pencil and watercolor on paper, 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8 in.)

Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. Artists and writers associated with German Expressionism shared a rebellious attitude (influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche) toward the materialism and mores of German imperial and bourgeois society. German Expressionistic art was an exegetic (and at times agonizing) reaction against the ambiguities and formalism of pre-World War I society. Its radical art and avant-garde mentality sought to end the alienation of painting from society.

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A German Impressionist: Lesser Ury

Lesser Ury (German, 1861 - 1931)

Canal

Landschaft mit See

Motiv von der Ostseeküste, circa 1890

The Coast of Rügen, 1892

Thames Bridges in the Twilight (also known as London Bridge), 1926

Autumn Mood with Green Wood Lake

luImsel im See

Aus meinem Fenster (Nollendorfplatz)

Lesser Ury (November 7, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was a German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin. In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

His first exhibition was in 1889 and met with a hostile reception, although he was championed by Adolph von Menzel whose influence induced the Akademie to award Ury a prize. In 1893 he joined the Munich Secession, one of the several Secessions formed by progressive artists in Germany and Austria in the last years of the 19th century. In 1901 he returned to Berlin, where he exhibited with the Berlin Secession, first in 1915 and notably in 1922, when he had a major exhibition. By this time Ury's critical reputation had grown and his paintings and pastels were in demand. His subjects were landscapes, urban landscapes, and interior scenes, treated in an Impressionistic manner that ranged from the subdued tones of figures in a darkened interior to the effects of streetlights at night to the dazzling light of foliage against the summer sky.

Ury is especially noted for his paintings of nocturnal cafe scenes and rainy streets. He developed a habit of repeating these compositions in order to sell them while retaining the originals, and these quickly made and inferior copies have harmed his reputation.

Always introverted and distrustful of people, Ury became increasingly reclusive in his later years. He died in Berlin and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee.