Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
German painter (1880–1916) who was one of the principal figures of the Expressionist movement. Though he was among several notable artists whose names were on a list to be withdrawn from combat during World War I, he was killed by a grenade at the Battle of Verdun before the order could be carried out. ALS in German, signed “F. M.,” one page both sides, 7.5 x 10, personal letterhead, no date, but circa March 1911. Letter to his bride Maria Franck concerning a court summons (his first wife Marie, née Schnür, whom Marc had divorced in 1908, tried to sabotage his marriage to Maria Franck through an adultery charge). In part (translated): “The papers have arrived. I have been subpoenaed for the 4th of April. You will get it here, addressed to Gauting, c/o Miss Adler. Fromm requested me to provide a neutral address…I’m in a hurry, on my way to; there’s a meeting of the society this afternoon. Back to Sindelsdorf in the evening. I’m glad the summons has finally arrived and that everything seems to be working.” Central horizontal and vertical fold, a few wrinkles and creases, and writing lightly showing through from opposing sides, otherwise fine condition. Both Marc and Franck were summoned to appear before the Munich district court on April 4. The “meeting of the society” mentioned here probably refers to a session of the Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen—the Munich New Artist's Association—to which Marc had been elected third chairman in 1911...the same year as the revolutionary ‘Blaue Reiter’ exhibition in Munich. An optimistic letter from the artist who here expresses his desire to move forward with his life—something he eventually did with his second wife.
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