Franz Marc
Franz Marc paint by numbers kits bring the blue horses and yellow cows of German Expressionism to your canvas. He worked in big, flat shapes of color, so every design here is rated beginner friendly and also comes as a diamond painting kit.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Franz Marc was a German painter and a pioneer of Expressionism. His works are known for their vivid color palettes and symbolic portrayals of animals, often reflecting emotion, nature, and spirituality.
Yes! While the imagery is bold and expressive, the kits are designed for all levels. Just follow the numbered sections, no experience required.
Each kit comes with a pre-printed numbered canvas, pre-mixed acrylic paints, brushes, and a reference sheet to guide your painting from start to finish.
Unlike realistic styles, Franz Marc’s work focuses on emotion through color and shape. These kits are perfect if you're drawn to colorful animal art with a deeper meaning.
Yes! Explore our Abstract Paint by Numbers Collection to discover more abstract and artist-inspired kits.
Franz Marc Paintings as Paint by Numbers
Franz Marc (1880 to 1916) was a German Expressionist who painted animals in colors no one had seen on a horse or a cow before. In 1911 he founded the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) group in Munich with Wassily Kandinsky. His career was cut short when he was killed at Verdun in 1916, but Franz Marc paintings remain some of the most loved images of early modern art. Our kits let you paint several of them yourself.
Franz Marc's Language of Color
Blue
For Marc, blue stood for the masculine and the spiritual. It is the color of his famous horses.
Yellow
Yellow meant the feminine, gentle and joyful. Think of the leaping Yellow Cow.
Red
Red was matter, heavy and violent, the color that the other two had to balance.
Animals
He saw animals as purer than people, and painted them to show how they feel, not how they look.
Franz Marc's Life in Brief
Munich and Paris
Born in Munich in 1880, the son of a landscape painter, Marc studied at the Munich Academy. Trips to Paris in 1903 and 1907 introduced him to Van Gogh and Gauguin, and their color changed his work.
The Blue Rider
With Kandinsky he organized the Blue Rider exhibitions of 1911 and 1912 and edited The Blue Rider Almanac, a manifesto for a new, spiritual art.
Famous Franz Marc Paintings You Can Paint
The Blue Horse
Based on Blue Horse I (1911), a young horse standing before bright, rolling hills.
Yellow Cow
His joyful 1911 painting of a cow kicking up her heels among blue and red hills.
The Foxes
A 1913 work where the animals break into sharp, crystal-like shapes.
Cat on a Yellow Pillow
A curled-up cat in warm yellows. Calm and easy to start.
More Franz Marc Paint by Numbers Kits
Great for beginners
Marc used big, flat shapes of color, so every kit here is rated beginner friendly. A lovely first Franz Marc paint by numbers.
Diamond painting
Every design here also comes as a diamond painting kit, and his pure colors look great in resin drills.
Meet the Blue Rider
Other well-known works include The Large Blue Horses and The Fate of the Animals. To keep exploring the Blue Rider circle, see Wassily Kandinsky and his friend Paul Klee, browse abstract and colorful art, or discover all our paint by numbers kits.
