German1887–1914
August Macke
A German painter of Der Blaue Reiter known for bright, happy scenes of people in parks and shops. He travelled to Tunisia with Paul Klee in 1914 and was killed in the first weeks of the war.
A life in paintings
- 1887Born
- 1911The first Blaue Reiter exhibition
Kandinsky and Marc open their exhibition in Munich, arguing that colour can express the spiritual.
- 1912
Was influenced by Robert DelaunayParisMacke (with Marc) visited Delaunay in Paris in 1912; Delaunay's Orphist colour shaped Macke's late style, including the Tunisian works.
Source: Wikipedia - 1914The First World War begins
War breaks out. Macke is killed at the front in September, five months after returning from Tunisia.
Worked with Paul KleeTunisia (Tunis, Hammamet, Kairouan)DiedIn April 1914 Macke, Klee and Louis Moilliet travelled together through Tunisia, producing dozens of watercolours; Klee wrote that colour possessed him there. Macke was killed in the war that September.
Source: hatjecantz.com
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Group · Munich · 1911
Der Blaue Reiter
Named after the almanac Kandinsky and Marc edited. First exhibition Dec 1911 at Thannhauser, Munich: 43 works by 14 artists, including Delaunay and Henri Rousseau. Ended with the war (Macke killed 1914, Marc 1916).