A discovery: The memoirs of Maria Marc. She was the companion and wife of the significant expressionist Franz Marc. The couple was granted little more than a single decade of close connection. The Blue Rider painter died in 1916 on the battlefield before Verdun. Much later, reflecting on the time spent by his side, Maria Marc put her memories—often brutally honest—on paper. Here, they are published for the first time: a powerful document of great personal and artistic strength. In 1905, the painter Maria Franck met her colleague Franz Marc. They became a married couple in 1913. Maria Marc's writings bring the artist Franz Marc and his personality into the spotlight. They do not shy away from his tendency towards melancholy or his self-doubts, which drove him to destroy many of his early works himself. Compelling, yet.