August Macke was a German painter who’s harmonious. He was born January 3, 1887, in Meschede, Germany; August Macke attended the Arts and Crafts School. His career as an artist spanned only eight short years. He was killed on September 26, 1914, as a soldier in the first weeks of World War I. He also was a student he contributed costume and stage designs for the Dusseldorf theater. Macke was also instrumental in providing funds for one of the most important contributions to modern art. His half year of study with the famous painter Lovis Corinth was of less importance to his artist development than his friendship with Franz Marc. Early on, Macke chose as his main themes simple, everyday scenes from the life he loved so much. He painted modern, often …show more content…
He oeuvre catalogue has been publishes by Gustav Vriesen. His letters exchanged with Franz Marc were published, edited by Waolfgang Macke. He’s known for his colorful landscape paintings: prominent in The Blue group. Most of his work included “View into a Lane,” a watercolor from 1914, and “Rokoko,” an oil on canvas from 1912. Worked as a stage and costume designer at the Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf while taking evening art classes with Fritz Helmut Ehmke and studying at the Kunstakademie. Macke was the only child of building contractor and amateur artist August Friedrich Hermann Macke. Macke was married to Elisabeth Gerhardt in 1909. He had one close friend of German painter and printmaker Franz Marc. Macke also lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements. August discovered the work of Henri Matisse and other artist. 1909 he met the young Expressionist painter Franz Marc in Germany. In Three Girls in a Barque (1911), Macke had combined the many styles he had recently discovered. Macke traveled with the Swiss painter Paul Klee to Tunis. He painted a series of work that placed the subject upon a grid of