He was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a pupil of
Henry Vianden in Milwaukee, of
Martin Schauß in
Weimar, of
Karl Gussow in
Berlin, and subsequently of
Otto Seitz at the
Academy of Fine Arts Munich. His first work,
Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, received a medal in Munich. One of his pictures,
Episode of 1813, was (as of 1911) in the Royal
Hanover Gallery. His
Germany in 1906 received a gold medal in Munich, and was (as of 1911) in the Prussian Royal Academy at
Königsberg. A large canvas,
The Flagellants, painted in 1889, is now in the collection of the
Museum of Wisconsin Art, in
West Bend, Wisconsin, on permanent loan from the City of Milwaukee. It received a gold medal at the Munich Exposition in 1889, a gold medal at the International Exhibition, Berlin in 1890 and a gold medal at the
Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Another canvas,
Summer Afternoon, originally from the Phoebe Hearst collection, in 1911 in the permanent collection of the
University of California, Berkeley, received a gold medal in Berlin, in 1892. In 1917, Marr was appointed a privy councilor to the Bavarian government. He was forced to flee to Switzerland during the
Bavarian Council Republic, which put a price on his head because of this political connection. In 1919, Marr became the director of the Royal Academy in Munich, where he continued to work until his retirement in 1923. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1934. Marr died on 10 July 1936 and is buried at the Solln Cemetery in Munich. ==References==