Welcome to the
Franz Marc
Museum

About the Museum

The Franz Marc Museum is an art museum.
It is in Kochel am See.
The museum opened in 1986.
In 2008, a new building was added.

You can see many paintings in the museum.
Most paintings were made after the year 1900.

The museum is named after Franz Marc.
Franz Marc was an artist.
He lived and worked in Kochel.
Franz Marc liked to paint animals.
He used bright and strong colours.
You can see many of his paintings in the museum.

The museum also shows paintings by other artists.

For example:

• Alexej von Jawlensky
• Gabriele Münter
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• Wassily Kandinsky

There are new exhibitions several times a year.

The museum offers many hands-on activities

For example:

• Führungen
• Kurse

These activities are for everyone:

• für Kinder
• für Jugendliche
• für Erwachsene
• für ältere Menschen

You can learn something new.
Or you can try something out yourself.

What is the exhibition about?

The exhibition is called: Modernity at the Zoo
A zoo is a place with many animals.
The animals come from different countries.
In a zoo, people can see the animals up close.

Franz Marc loved animals.
He often went to the zoo.
Other artists also visited zoos.
There, they saw many different animals.
This gave them new ideas for their art.

The artists were especially interested in exotic animals.
Exotic means: the animal comes from a faraway country.
For example: a tiger or a parrot.

The artists had many thoughts about animals:
Animals also have feelings.
Maybe animals think like humans.
They asked themselves:
How do animals see the world?
What do animals feel?