Artist: August Macke (1887 - 1914)
Nationality: German
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

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: (40)
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Gottlieb August Liebe, August Keppel, 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 All the S
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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…E... (Im
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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 L*AN
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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…E...
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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... (Images of
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Robert Wray Manning - August Still Life 1941 oil on board Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Gregory Amenoff - Light in August 1996 oil on canvas Kemper Museum of Contemporary 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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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*ANN…E
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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... (Im
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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... (Images of A
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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 SAINT
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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 SAINC
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Jacques Callot, St.Peter in Chains, August 1; St. Mary of the Angels, August 2; Discovery of the Body of St. Stephen, August 3; St. Dominic, Founder of the Order of Preaching Fathers, August 4; sixty-sixth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINC
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Helen Hyde, August, 1914
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Helen Hyde, August, 1914
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David Lance Goines, August, 1978
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Temple Gardens, 1920 Paul Klee (German, 1879-1940)Gouache and traces of ink on paper; H. 7-1/4,
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Jacob van Huysum - Twelve months of flowers: August early 18th cent oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Dutch
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Artist: Berenice Abbott Title: Waterfront, from Pier 19, East River, New York City Date: August
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A. K. Moe, Harvard Lampoon August 1895, 1895
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Charles Hazelwood Shannon, August, 1904
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Anders Zorn, August Strindberg, 1910
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Edward Penfield, Harper"s August 1896, 1896
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August Gaul, Horns Riff, 1916
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Frederic August von Kaulbach, Self-Portrait, 1916
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker, The August Century, 1896
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Florence Lundborg, The Lark for August, 1985 - 1986
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Edward Penfield, July, August, September, 1897
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Anonymous, Overland Monthly, August 1895, 1895
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Anonymous, L"Èclipse du 30 ao°t 1905 (Eclipse , 30 August 1905), 1905
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917
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August Gaul, One from Set of 15 lithographic studies of Animals, 1917

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
August Macke, Biographie, Macke-Haus Bonn, Museen
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August Macke artist portrait, brief biography and art
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