August Macke (1887-1914)

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August Macke was born in Renan, but soon his family moved to Cologne, then to Bonn.
In 1904 he entered the Dyusselfdorfskui Academy of Fine Arts, and the following year and enrolled at the evening department of the School of Decorative Arts, the program that suits him more, because it allows more freedom and autonomy in the work of students.

In 1906, Mac left the Academy. During this time he became acquainted with the new trend in French painting - impressionism. This acquaintance polnostyub changed his approach to art. Macke traveled to Paris several times to see the originals of works of artists that he admired - Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Pissarro. During this time he made many sketches, in which he tried to capture fleeting impressions of scenes on the streets, in gardens, cafes ...

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Settling in Berlin, he began to attend the workshop Lovis Corinth, but soon went back to France and then to Italy to buy art for the collection of Kohler. In 1908-1909. He served in the army, which did not give him the opportunity to paint.
In 1909, the newly married Mac settled in Tegenzee. Quiet village life allowed him to work very hard - during this period he wrote about 200 works. Frequency is Tegenzee first vertex creativity Macke: his style is established, all the extra, random disappeared. In the works of this time shows the influence of Cezanne, which is uenil Mac, as well as Fauvism.

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In 1911, Mac moved to Bonn. Konakty with his friend the artist Frantsum Marc, Vasily Kandinsky and other artists "Blue rider" gave new impetus to creativity Maquet. Maquet collaborated actively with Kandinsky infracture a compendium of the "Blue Rider", published in 1912, in particular, he - the author of articles on African masks, in which he drew parallels between the art of primitive peoples and the art of modern Europe.

He participated in the exhibition "Blue rider" in Munich in February 1912 at Tanheyzera. The result of this exhibition, it is very disappointing, and he broke with Kandinsky and the Blue Horseman ": in 1913 he painted" The cartoon on the Blue rider "- a kind of pictorial pamphlet, in which inherited and NGOs friend Franz Marc, and, of course , most Kandinsky and Hervartu Walden, who took "Blue rider" under his wing and exhibited works of the participants in his Berlin gallery.

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In 1913, Mac moved to Switzerland, this period was extremely fruitful for him. He did not remain indifferent to cubism, especially the chromatic Cubism Delaunay (which Apollinaire called Orphism), but found his path: his work, filled with radiant color = atizmom chrome, full of peace: it rides on the lake, it woman, looked at the window of a fashionable shop , townspeople, drinking beer in a tavern in the suburbs. The freshness, delicacy and lyricism of this painting are inherent to it alone. Silhouettes of his graceful girls in the shade of the trees are inspired by artists postimpressmionizma, but the color and light in his works are not real, people often only identified, many studies have characters stand back or in profile to the audience. For Mac it is important not to portray some sort of domestic scenes, and identify her poetry. A certain primeval innocence, transparent stillness, calm, cloudless happiness - that's a world in which he lived, is the most (not to say "only") and harmonious of all the German artists of that time.

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During a brief trip to Tunisia, where he traveled with Paul Klee and Louis Mollier, he made a lot of watercolors, which he later returned home, painted. His latest work is called "Farewell" - it is difficult not to see in this sad work premonitions of what happened soon.

Macke was called up on Aug. 8, 1914 He was killed on the battlefield, in the Champagne, September 28, 1914, and the Earth has lost a huge artist. He was 27 years old.

Consolidated catalog Maquet, compiled Vrisenom Gustav (Gustav Vriesen), consists of 548 watercolors and 550 oils.

Mac page with the prices of his work: http://www.findartinfo.com/search/li...e=August_Macke