Maria Franck-Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck (12 June 1876 – 25 January 1955), was a German artist.

In Berlin she attended the Unterrichtanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseum, the Königliche Akademie der Künste (Royal Academy of Arts).

[2] In 1903 she started studying in Munchen at the Damen-Akademie des Künstlerinnen-Vereins (Ladies Academy of the Artists' Association, Munich), where she had classes from Angelo Jank en Max Feldbauer.

[2] In 1910 and 1911 Franck and Marc met with fellow artists couples August Macke and Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, and Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter.

[7] They were briefly involved with the Neue Künstlervereinigung München but soon they decided to start their own movement: Der Blaue Reiter.

[8][9] This group is considered fundamental to expressionism and was fascinated by authenticity, returning to nature, and conveying emotions through bold colours.

August Macke also died in the war, and the two widows, Maria Franck-Marc and Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, stayed lifelong friends.

[2] This period turned out to be very productive: she designed and weaved tapistries according to her own artistic views, with clear influence of Paul Klee's compositions.