August Macke

1887 Meschede/Sauerland
1914 Vitry/Frankreich
After doing his military service for one year as a volunteer in 1908, the artist married - now in Bonn - Elisabeth Gerhardt. In 1909 he got acquainted with Franz Marc in Tegernsee, with whom he would be friends for the rest of his life. With their colourful and spacious, two-dimensional forms Macke's works from that time displayed clearly the influence of the painting of Henri Matisse and Franz Marc. In 1911 August Macke joined 'Der Blaue Reiter', a group of artists from Munich. On another trip to Paris with Marc he got to know Robert Delaunay and his orphic way of painting. Delaunay also visited Macke later, together with Guillaume Apollinaire. This colourful form of cubism made a lasting impression on him. The trip to Tunis with Paul Klee and Louis René Moilliet in 1914 also contributed to the development of his own style of bright, intensive coloration and crystalline design. On 26 September 1914 Macke fell at the western front in France at the age of 27.
August Macke's world of paintings is unmistakable. Quiet compositions, scenes of nature, the open countryside or of places inhabited by monumental, faceless figures show his harmony-seeking look at the contemplative world of the regular citizen - until the outbreak of world war I.
Nolde, Emil
Sale 342 - Dec. 03, 08
Lot 259
Watercolour 1918
70,000 EUR / 88,200 $
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Morgner, W.
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Lot 239
Oil on cardboard 1912
60,000 EUR / 75,600 $
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Topp, Arnold
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Lot 263
Oil on canvas 1921
20,000 EUR / 25,200 $
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Kandinsky, W.
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Lot 277
Lithograph in colours 1922
16,000 EUR / 20,160 $
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Münter, G.
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Lot 265
Watercolour 1920
18,000 EUR / 22,680 $
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Lot 243
Woodcut 1914
70,000 EUR / 88,200 $
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Campendonk, H.
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Lot 293
Lithograph 1928
7,000 EUR / 8,820 $
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Ehrhardt, Curt
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Lot 21
Assemblage 1920
6,000 EUR / 7,560 $
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Levy, Rudolf
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Lot 290
Oil on canvas 1943
5,700 EUR / 7,182 $
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Scheiber, Hugo
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Lot 255
Oil 1930
8,000 EUR / 10,080 $
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Barlach, Ernst
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Lot 19
Pen and India ink 1912
6,000 EUR / 7,560 $
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Feininger, L.
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Lot 217
1910
25,000 EUR / 31,500 $
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