Legacy and Honors
- His family house in Munich is marked with an historic plaque.
- In October 1998, several of Marc's paintings garnered record prices at Christie's art auction house in London, including Rote Rehe I (Red Deer I), which sold for $3.30m.
- In October 1999, his Der Wasserfall (The Waterfall) was sold by Sotheby's in London to a private collector for $5.06m. This price set a record for both Franz Marc's work, and 20th-century German painting.
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Pferd in der Landschaft, Horse in a Landscape, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1910
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Hocken im Schnee, Haystacks in the Snow, 1911
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Die großen blauen Pferde, Large Blue Horses, Walker Art Center, 1911
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Schlafende Hirtin, Sleeping Shepherdess, 1912, British Museum
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Ruhende Pferde, Horses Resting, 1911/12, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Rehe im Walde II, Deer in the Woods II, 1912
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Aus der Tierlegende, From the Animal Legend, 1912, British Museum
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Versöhnung, Atonement, 1912, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Die verzauberte Mühle, The Bewitched Mill, 1913, Art Institute of Chicago
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Der Turm der blauen Pferde, The Tower of Blue Horses, 1913, missing since 1945
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Geburt der Wölfe, Birth of the Wolves, 1913, Yale University Art Gallery
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Tierschicksale, The Fate of the Animals, 1913, Kunstmuseum Basel
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Das Lamm, The Lamb, 1913/14
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Schöpfungsgeschichte II, Creation Story, 1914, British Museum
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Kämpfende Formen, Fighting Forms, 1914
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Rehe im Walde, Roe deer in the forest, 1914
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Weidende Pferde IV (Die roten Pferde), The Large Red Horses, 1911
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Füchse, Foxes, 1913, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
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Tiger, Tiger, 1912, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
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