August Macke. Self portrait. 1906. Oil on canvas. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte.

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August Macke (January 3, 1887 – September 26, 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x3087, 531 KB) Description: Title: de: Selbstporträt Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 54,2 × 35,4 cm Country of origin: de: Deutschland Current location (city): de: Münster Current location (gallery): de: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x3087, 531 KB) Description: Title: de: Selbstporträt Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 54,2 × 35,4 cm Country of origin: de: Deutschland Current location (city): de: Münster Current location (gallery): de: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x3258, 690 KB) Description: Title: de: Blick in eine Gasse Technique: de: Aquarell Dimensions: de: 29 × 22,5 cm Country of origin: de: Deutschland Current location (city): de: Mülheim a. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x3258, 690 KB) Description: Title: de: Blick in eine Gasse Technique: de: Aquarell Dimensions: de: 29 × 22,5 cm Country of origin: de: Deutschland Current location (city): de: Mülheim a. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac. ...

Macke was born in Meshede, Germany. His father, August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845-1904), was a building contractor and his mother, Maria Florentine, née Adolph, (1848-1922), came from a farming family in Germany's Sauerland region. The family lived at Brüsseler 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 travelled 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. Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2004 est): 313,605 ; the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine. ... Lake Thun (German: Thunersee) is a lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. ... See also Impressionist (entertainment): A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Lovis Corinth (July 21, 1858, Tapiau, East Prussia (today Gwardeisk in the Russian enclave Kaliningrad Oblast) - July 17, 1925, Zandvoort, Netherlands) was a German painter who found a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ... A Hundred Years of Independence by Henri Rousseau Post-impressionism is a term applied to painting styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries — after impressionism. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Animal Destinies (Tierschicksale), 1913, Basel: Basel Kunstmuseum. ... On White II (Kandinsky 1923) Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name sometimes spelled as Vasily, Vassily or Vasilii) (December 16, 1866 - December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist. ...

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 travelled 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. Macke's career was cut short by his early death at the front in World War I in September 1914. Robert Delaunay (born April 12, 1885 in Paris, France; died October 25, 1941 in Montpellier, France), French impressionist artist. ... Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ... Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ... Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined in 1912 France by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. ... This article is about the art movement, futurism. ... Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. ... Louis Moilliet (October 6, 1880 – August 24, 1962) was an artist from Switzerland who was noted as a painter and stained glass designer. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

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