The collection of the Franz Marc Museums comprises several hundred works by Franz Marc. The unique appeal of the collection, that is continuously being expanded with important permanent loans from private collections, can be found in these major individual works which deepen and broaden one’s view of Expressionism. ![]() In the Expressionist section, the collection not only boasts a number of major paintings but also has an extenisve holding of works on paper, including Franz Marc’s first sketches for the Tower of Blue Horses, early coloured woodcut prints by Erich Heckel, spontaneous sketches by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, watercolours by Oskar Kokoschka and pen-and-ink drawings by Ludwig Meidner. As a result, the museum now also has an important number of works by Horst Antes. His daughter, Etta, who married the Munich gallery owner Otto Stangl, added to the collection together with her husband up until the 1980s. A large proportion of the exhibits date back to Rudolf Ibach who continued to acquire Expressionist works into the 1920s. The origin of the holdings stem from a private collection. ![]() As a result, the museum not only provides an overview of the two avant-garde movements in Germany before World War I but also traces the continuation of these artistic paths, cut short by the Nazi era and the ‘degenerate art’ campaign, and showcases abstract painting in Germany after World War II as well. With the opening of the new building in 2008, the collection of the Franz Marc Museum that originally focussed exclusively on the works of Franz Marc and the ‘Blauer Reiter’ artists, was expanded to include the Expressionist works of the ‘Brücke’ (Bridge) and German post-war abstraction.
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