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August Macke
Embroidering woman
Date 1909
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August Macke
Elisabeth Gerhard sewing
Date 1909
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August Macke
Reading woman
Date 1910
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August Macke
Portrait of the artist's wife with a hat
Date 1909(1909)
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August Macke
Elisabeth am Schreibtisch
Date 1909(1909)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions Deutsch: 22 x 16 cm
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August Macke
Portrait de Franz Marc
Date 1910(1910)
Medium oil on paperboard
Dimensions 50 x 39 cm (19.7 x 15.4 in)
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August Macke
Reclining female nude
Date 1910
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August Macke
Female nude with coral necklace
Date 1910
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August Macke
Female nude at a knited carpet
Date Unknown
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August Macke
Baum im Kornfeld
Date 1907(1907)
Medium Deutsch: Bleistift, Öl auf Karton
Dimensions Deutsch: 30 x 15,8 cm
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August Macke
Seated female with a pillow
Date 1911
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August Macke
Gartenbild
Date 1911(1911)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 70 x 88 cm
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August Macke
St Mary im Schnee
Date 1913
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August Macke
Street with church in Kandern
Date 1911
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August Macke
Staudacher's house at the Tegernsee
Date 1910
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August Macke
Red house in park
Date 1914
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August Macke
At the Rhine near Hersel
Date 1908
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August Macke
Hat Store
Date 1914
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August Macke
Fashion Store
Date 1914
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August Macke
Farewell
Date 1914
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1887-1914
August Macke Locations
August Macke was born in Meschede, Germany. His father, August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845-1904), was a building contractor and his mother, Maria Florentine, n??e Adolph, (1848-1922), came from a farming family in Germany's Sauerland region. The family lived at Br??sseler Straße until August was 13. He then lived most of his creative life in Bonn, with the exception of a few periods spent at Lake Thun in Switzerland and various trips to Paris, Italy, Holland and Tunisia. In Paris, where he traveled for the first time in 1907, Macke saw the work of the Impressionists, and shortly after he went to Berlin and spent a few months in Lovis Corinth's studio. His style was formed within the mode of French Impressionism and Post-impressionism and later went through a Fauve period. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Gerhardt. In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter.
Macke's meeting with Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912 was to be a sort of revelation for him. Delaunay's chromatic Cubism, which Apollinaire had called Orphism, influenced Macke's art from that point onwards. His Shops Windows can be considered a personal interpretation of Delaunay's Windows, combined with the simultaneity of images found in Italian Futurism. The exotic atmosphere of Tunisia, where Macke traveled in 1914 with Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet was fundamental for the creation of the luminist approach of his final period, during which he produced a series of works now considered masterpieces. August Macke's oeuvre can be considered as Expressionism, (the movement that flourished in Germany between 1905 and 1925) and also his work was part of Fauvism. The paintings concentrate primarily on expressing emotion, his style of work represents feelings and moods rather than reproducing objective reality, usually distorting colour and form.
Macke's career was cut short by his early death at the front in Champagne in September 1914, the second month of World War I. His final painting, Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war.
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