Macke

August Macke (1887-1914) was a German Expressionist painter, member of the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement alongside Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky. Born in Meschede in the Rhineland, he developed a luminous and colorful style, less symbolic and more joyful than that of his Expressionist contemporaries, favoring the representation of scenes of urban daily life, walks in parks, shop windows, and elegant figures in sunny landscapes. Influenced by Fauvism, Robert Delaunay’s Orphism, and especially by his journey to Tunisia in 1914 with Paul Klee, where he discovered the intensity of Mediterranean light, he created compositions with brilliant colors and simplified forms that celebrated the beauty of the modern world. Among his best-known works are “Woman in a Green Jacket,” “Promenade on the Bridge,” and his Tunisian watercolors. Mobilized at the outbreak of World War I, he was killed at the front in Champagne in September 1914, at only 27 years old, depriving German Expressionism of one of its most promising and luminous talents.

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