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August Macke
German painter
Not to be confused with Auguste Maquet.
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).
August macke biography for kids
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.[1] Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War.
Early life
August Robert Ludwig Macke was born in Germany on 3 January 1887, in Meschede, Westphalia. He was the only son of August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845–1904), a building contractor and amateur artist, and his wif