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August Macke(3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914)German Painter Was often spelled as Macke August, August Mack, Auguste Macke August Macke was born in Meschede, 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. August Macke 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. His style as one of expressionists artists was formed within the mode of French Impressionism and Post-impressionism and later went through a Fauve period. |
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In a letter of 1911 to August Macke, painter
Franz Marc addressed his friend with a nobilitating "August Vonderfarbe"
, very aptly characterizing
his principal artistic concern. The two had met the year before in Munich. Their friendship, by which their art mutually profited, brought August Macke in contact with the
painters of the Blauer Reiter (especially
artist
Wassily Kandinsky and Alexei von Javlensky).
- Toperfect Art
supplies August Macke paintings, biography, works of Lady in a Green Jacket. However, Macke never shared their tendency to mystical considerations and metaphysical speculation. Rather than attributing abstract values and significances to colors as Marc did, August Macke used them solely to express his own personal feelings and ideas. When Marc praised him in his obituary as "the one who gave colors the brightest and purest tone of us all," he meant the elemental lucidity, order, and harmony that pervaded August Macke paintings. It was not a spiritualization of nature, but what he called a "joyful living through of nature" that determined his approach. This explains why seeing a show of the artworks of Matisse, in Munich in 1911, was so important to artist August Macke, for it confirmed his own love of brilliant color and simplified form. The decisive influence on his German expressionism art, however, came after he had become familiar with Cubism and Futurism, and seen the art of Edvard Munch. This influence was Robert Delaunay, whom he and artist Marc visited in Paris in 1912. |
The exotic atmosphere of Tunisia, where
he traveled in 1914 with
painters painter
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
art now considered masterpieces. August Mack receives financial support from Elisabeth's uncle Bernhard Koehler, Berlin factory owner. The German expressionism painter sees originals by the French Impressionists for the first time and is captivated above all by oil painting artists Manet, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. After his return, he decides to go to Berlin for a lengthy period of study. He intends to continue his interrupted education in evening courses at the private school of painter Lovis Corinth, a leading representatives of German Impressionism. In the daytime, August Macke tours museums, galleries, and libraries. He studies Leonardo da Vinci's theory of art and pores through art journals to familiarize himself with the art of the French Modernists. |
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August Macke paintings can be considered as German expressionism art, (the movement that
flourished in Germany between 1905 and 1925) and also his art was part of
Fauvism. The oil paintings
art concentrate primarily on expressing emotion, his style of
art represents feelings and moods rather than reproducing objective reality, usually distorting colour and form.
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The Mackes are close friends of the Moilliet family who live nearby in Gunten. In January, Louis Moilliet is visited by his school friend painter Paul Klee, who also visits August Macke. They plan a study trip to Tunisia. At the beginning of April Macke sets out for Marseille, where he meets with Klee and Moilliet on April 5 for the crossing to Africa. Together they art in the Arab quarter and in the port of Tunis, in Saint Germain, in the country house of the Swiss couple Ernst and Rosa Jäggi-Müller, in Sidi-Bou-Said, in Hammamet, and Kairouan. With countless photographs, sketches, and luminous water colors, August Macke returns on April 22 to Switzerland via Palermo and Rome. | |||||||||
The German expressionism art Lady in a Green Jacket was done by
Macke August during a stay at Thun Lake in 1913,
shows an especially harmonious arrangement of form and a fine equilibration of
color. A year later, the alternation among statuesque figures, softly rendered
foliage and grass, and blocky, Cubistic houses in the background, gave way to
the more atmospheric approach of Man Reading in the Park (1914).
One of last August Macke paintings was the unfinished art that now bears the title Farewell. "With absolute clarity," Vriesen states, "the picture reflects the gloom and numbness that befell public life" before the first year of war was out, "the mood of uncertainty and disquiet which took possession of August Macke as well." His career was cut short by his early death at the front in Champagne in September 1914, the second month of World War I. The final August Macke painting, Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war. |
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