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August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. He lived during a particularly active time for German art: he 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. As an artist of his t…
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culture · German painter (1887–1914) · painter · draftsperson · sculptor · graphic artist · architectural drafter · scenographer · also August Macke, August Robert Ludwig Macke, Macke
Born 3 January 1887 · Died 26 September 1914 · Q33981
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2007· 1 entry
The Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach sold Macke’s Woman with a Parrot in a Landscape for €2
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1959· 1 entry
By the districts Arnsberg, Brilon, Olpe and Meschede, town of birth of August Macke in Germany
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1914· 2 entries
Died 1914-09-26.
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“It was the desire for living, vital expression which built Gothic cathedrals, which created Mozart sonatas. I believe it is going to stay that way for long time to come.”
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1910· 1 entry
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
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1907· 1 entry
Macke saw the work of the Impressionists, and shortly after he went to Berlin and spent a few months in Lovis Corinth's studio
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1904· 1 entry
Macke's father died, and in that year Macke enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under Adolf Maennchen (1904–1906)
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1900· 1 entry
When he was thirteen, the family moved to Bonn, where Macke studied at the Realgymnasium and became a friend of Walter Gerhardt and Gerhardt's sister, Elisabeth, whom he married a few years later
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-01-03.
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