August Macke

>August Macke 2005-02-23T08:35:00Z Mandarax add internal links, birth/death dates '''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. Macke 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 [[Impressionist]]s, 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 [[Fauvism|Fauve]] period. 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 [[Guillaume Apollinaire|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 (art)|Futurism]]. The exotic atmosphere of Tunisia, where Macke travelled in 1914 with [[Paul Klee]] and Louis Moillet 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. [[Category:1887 births|Macke, August]] [[Category:1914 deaths|Macke, August]] [[Category:German painters|Macke, August]] [[de:August Macke]] [[fr:August Macke]] [[sv:August Macke]]