Artist: August Macke (1887 - 1914)
Nationality: German
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
August Macke first trained under Corinth in Berlin before visiting Paris multiple times between 1907 and 1912. He was inspired by various movements in French art, particularly Impressionism, Fauvism, and Orphism. He combined all these styles and created an individual approach to painting. Although he is associated with the Expressionist movement, his paintings generally dealt with pleasant subjects rather than the anguish that other members of the movement preferred to paint. After meeting Kandinsky and Marc in Munich around 1910, the three founded Der Blaue Reiter. However, while the other members of the group headed towards abstraction, Macke continued to paint mostly representational subject matter. Macke was killed while serving in World War I.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Temple Gardens, 1920 Paul Klee (German, 1879-1940)Gouache and traces of ink on paper; H. 7-1/4,
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Gottlieb August Liebe August Keppel 18th - 19th century
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Gregory Amenoff - Light in August 1996 oil on canvas Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art American
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Robert Wray Manning - August Still Life 1941 oil on board Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Edward Hopper - August in the City 1945 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art American
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B. v. F. Vor Paris (Hannover: August Curtze, [ca. 1870]) book with chromolithographs 1870
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Jacob van Huysum - Twelve months of flowers: August early 18th cent oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Dutch
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Berenice Abbott Title: Waterfront, from Pier 19, East River, New York City Date: August
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Anders Zorn August Strindberg Etching with drypoint 1910
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Rineke Dijkstra - Tiergarten, Berlin, August 13, 2000 2000 C-print Miami Art Museum Dutch
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George Catiln - First Sailing of the Griffin on Lake Erie. August 7, 1679 1847-1848 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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A. K. Moe Harvard Lampoon August 1895 Poster 1895
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Anonymous Overland Monthly, August 1895 poster 1895
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Gottfried August Grundler J.M. Gasser 18th century
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Frederic August von Kaulbach Self-Portrait Drypoint 1916
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Karl August Schwerdgeburth Karl V 18th - 19th century
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Gottfried August Grundler Campejus Vitringa, etc. 18th century
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Helen Hyde August color woodcut 1914
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Helen Hyde August Color woodcut 1914
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J.S.L. Halle August von Hoff 18th - 19th century
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Bradley & Rulofson Portrait of August Wilhelm photograph circa 1880
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Karl August Schwerdgeburth The Three Electorates from Saxony 18th - 19th century
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Karl August Schwerdgeburth Ulrich von Rutten 18th - 19th century
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Karl August Schwerdgeburth Franz von Siekingen 18th - 19th century
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Karl August Schwerdgeburth Regula Swingli 18th - 19th century
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Daniel Beyel D. Johan August Noesselt 18th - 19th century
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August Gaul Horns Riff Lithograph 1916
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker The August Century Color lithograph 1896
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Clare Leighton August - Harvesting Wood engraving 20th century
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J.S.L. Halle August Wilhelm Hupel 18th - 19th century
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August Ruessener Portrait of a man 19th century
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Gottfried August Grundler Julius Henningius Boehmer 18th century
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Gottfried August Grundler Edmund Jacob Baumgarten 18th century
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Gottfried August Grundler Nicolas Dietrich Giseke 18th century
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Gottlieb August Liebe D. Paul Gottlieb Werlhof 18th - 19th century
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Edward Penfield Harper's August 1896 color lithograph 1896
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Anonymous L'Èclipse du 30 ao*t 1905 (Eclipse , 30 August 1905) Gelatin silver print 1905
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Edward Penfield July, August, September Color lithograph 1897
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Charles Ross - Sunlight Convergence / Solar Burn: 10 Days, July 27 through August 5, 1971, New York City 1971 wood University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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George Cruikshank August 18th - 19th century
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Frederic August von Kaulbach In the Park (classic dance) Drypoint 1917
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Frederic August von Kaulbach Portrait of a young girl Drypoint 1916
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Johann Heinrich Lips August Christ. Bartels 18th - 19th century
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August Gaul Kut El Amara Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Johann Friedrich Bause Portrait Of Joh. August Ernesti Engraving-etchi 1778
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul Ziegen Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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Mattheus Borrekens August Carpzov 17th century
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J.S.L. Halle August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome 18th - 19th century
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Charles Hazelwood Shannon August Color woodcut on India Paper 1904
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Johann Friedrich Bause Portrait Of Frederic August Of Saxony Engraving 1769
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August Gaul Plants and Butterflies Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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August Gaul Eagles in Flight Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger Johann Georg August Galletti 18th - 19th century
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August Gaul Monkey and snake Dry point 19th - 20th century
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger Friedrich August, King of Saxony 18th - 19th century
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Jacques Callot St.Hippolytus, Martyr, August 13; St.Radegund, Queen, August 13; St. Cassian, Martyr, August 13; St. Athanasia, Widow, August 14; seventieth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E... (Images of A
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Pierre August Lamy Une Lecture d'apres Prud-Hon Lithograph 19th century
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Jacques Callot Assumption of the Virgin, August 15; St. Roch, Confessor, August 16; Savior of the World, August 16; St.Clare of Montefalco, Virgin, August 17; seventy-first plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…
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Jacques Callot St.Albert the Carmelite, August 7; St. Marinus, Old Man and Martyr, August 8; St. Demetrius and His Companions, August 9; St. Lawrence, Martyr, August 10; sixty-eighth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE
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John Smith Portrait of Ernest August, Duke of Brunswick Mezzotint 17th - 18th century
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F.A. Zimmermann Friedrich August, King of Saxony 19th century
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F.A. Zimmermann Friedrich August, King of Saxony 19th century
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M. Knabig Friedrich August, King of Saxony 19th century
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C.E. Weber Friedrich August III, King of Saxony 19th century
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Florence Lundborg The Lark for August color lithograph 1985 - 1986
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Jacques Callot St.Mary of the Snows, August 5; St. Memnius, Bishop, August 5; Transfiguration of Our Lord, August 6; Sts. Justus and Pastor, August 6; sixty-seventh plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E... (Ima
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Jacques Callot St. Patricia,Virgin, August 25; Sts. Secundus and Alexander, Martyrs, August 26; St. Cesarius, Bishop, August 27; St.Augustine, Doctor, August 28; seventy-fifth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN

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William Nicholson An Almanac of Twelve Sports - 12 plates; August Color lithograph 1898
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Jacques Callot St. Aurea,Virgin, August 24; St.Bartholomew, Apostle, August 25; St. Louis, King of France, August 25; St.Genesius,Martyr, August 25; seventy-fourth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E... (Ima
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Jacques Callot St. Philibert, Abbot, August 20; St.Privatus, Bishop Martyr, August 21; St. Simphorian, August 22; St.Philip, Founder of the Servite Order, August 23; seventy-third plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*AN
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Jacques Callot St. Mederic, Abbot, August 29; Decapitation of St. John the Baptist, August 29; St. Fiacre, August 30; Deposit of the Virgin*s Belt, August 31; seventy-sixth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Market Scene August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen (Austrian, 1821-1889)Oil on wood; 4 x 8 1/2
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Baron August-Gaspard-Louis-Boucher Desnoyers La Visitation Engraving 1815
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August Gaul Title page from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals Lithograph 1917
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August Gaul Three Hyenas and crouching leopard Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki August saves Kate Engraving 1795 - 1796
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August Gaul Seal swallowing a fish Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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August Gaul Flock of grazing sheep Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Callot St. Helena, Mother of Constantine, August 18; St.Donatus, Priest and Anchorite, August 19; St. Louis, Bishop and Minorite, August 19; St.Bernard, Abbot, August 20; seventy-second plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SA
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Thomas Moran Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Wyoming oil on canvas 1906
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Go Field Marshal Count von Moltke "Modern strategy" from Vanity Fair, August 23, 1884 Lithograph 1884
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: 1967 Pontiac, Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota Date: August, 1971
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Nemo Alexander III, Emperor of Russia "My august master", from Vanity Fair, October 11, 1884 Lithograph 1884
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Jacques Callot St. Alexander the Charcoal Maker, Bishop and Martyr, August 11; St. Clare, Virgin, August 12; St. Digna and Her Companions, Martyrs, August 12; St. Concordia, Martyr, August 13; sixty-ninth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Italian Garden, 1894 Friedrich August von Kaulbach (German, 1850-1920)Oil on canvas; 19 3/8 x 25

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: The Blue Rider Artists: Works from the Busch-Reisinger Museum and other Collections
Artists in the Blue Rider included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke, as well as Franz Marc and others....
Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...
Sprengel Museum: Theo Garve - Paintings and Coloured Pictures
The artist was born on 21 November, 1902 in Offenbach. After completing an apprenticeship as an engine-fitter, he attended at first the Offenbach and then the Frankfurt School of Arts and Crafts. His first attempts at painting were ...
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum: Der Blaue Reiter: The Freeing of Color
The exhibition has been curated by the Museums director, Dr. Richard Gassen and will show approximately 200 pieces by 13 artists. The outstanding quality of the exhibition lies in its unique conception as well as in the excellent collaboration ...
Phillips Auctioneers: Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg to Auction Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art
Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg will auction the Diethelm Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art on Monday, November 5 at 11:00 am. Among the highlights of the collection are two rare beach scenes by Max Liebermann, which illustrate...
Ketterer Kunst: 16 Works from the Herbert and Natalie Kirshner Collection, New York
Gabriele Münter's Kandinsky und Erma Bossi am Tisch was made in 1909, like two other oil paintings with the same subject, shortly after the artist bought her house in Murnau. It shows the interior of the living room in the so-called Russenhaus – a...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...

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Biographie: August Macke, 1887-1914
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