August Macke

August Macke German Expressionist artist August Robert Ludwig Macke lived from January 3, 1887, to September 26, 1914. He was a central figure in Der Blaue Reiter, a group of German Expressionists (The Blue Rider). He was alive during a period when German art was highly active; he experienced both the emergence of the subsequent avant-garde trends that were developing throughout the rest of Europe and the growth of the leading German Expressionist movements. The avant-garde components that most fascinated Macke as an artist of his day were seamlessly integrated into his paintings. He was a young German painter who...
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