| Maria Marc | |
| Birth Name: | Bertha Pauline Marie Franck |
| Birth Date: | 12 June 1876 |
| Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany |
| Death Place: | Ried, Bavaria, Germany |
| Field: | Painting, textiles |
Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck (12 June 1876 - 25 January 1955), was a German artist. She is also known as the wife of the painter Franz Marc.[1]
She was born on 12 June 1876 in Berlin, Germany. She attended the Unterrichtanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseum, the Königliche Akademie der Künste (Royal Academy of Arts,Berlin), and the Damen-Akademie des Künstlerinnen-Vereins (Ladies Academy of the Artists' Association, Munich).[2] She met the artist Franz Marc in 1905, marrying him in 1913.[3] [4] Her work was included in the first exhibition of the Blauer Reiter group. After Franz Marc's death she studied textile art at the Bauhaus.[3]
Maria Marc died on 25 January 1955 in Ried, Bavaria.[2] Her work is in MoMA's German Expressionist collection.[5]