Very few of Marc’s works from this early period survive, but those that do are very characteristic of the Munich School. Marc’s professors at the Munich Academy of Art, Gabriel Hackl and William von Diez, stressed the importance of plein-air painting and restrained naturalism. Marc very much admired the German Romantic painters, and his early works’ academic tendencies reflect the influence of Runge, Friedrich, Kobell, Blechen, Rethel and Schwind. In 1899, he enrolled at the Munich Academy of Art, where he studied for two years. After leaving school to perform his year of compulsory military service, Marc decided to become a painter.
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Only later did he decide to followed in the footsteps of his father, Wilhelm Marc, a modestly successful professional landscape painter. After briefly considering the priesthood, Franz enrolled at Munich University to pursue philology or to become a secondary school teacher. There was little direct pressure placed on the boys, and both Paul and Franz ambled through their early adult years, veering from one professional path to another until each discovered a suitable career. Sophie Marc’s brand of “Christian Socialism,” with its emphasis on humility, modesty, spiritual values, literature, philosophy and liberal Christian ideals, informed her children’s education and ambitions. Franz and his older brother Paul grew up in a middle-class household that was notable for its artistic leanings. A serious, intellectually and religiously inclined child, Franz was clearly influenced by his mother, Sophie, a strict Calvinist of Alsatian origin. Franz Marc was born in Munich on February 8, 1880.
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