August Macke
1887 – 1914 · aged 27
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
- Born
- 3 Jan 1887 · Meschede
- Died
- 26 Sept 1914 · Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
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- 3 Jan 1887BornBorn in Meschede
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 26 Sept 1914DiedDied in Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
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- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
Biography
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). 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 time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War.
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