August Macke is definitely on my list of favorite artists, born January 3, 1877 in Meschede, Germany. A key member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, Macke was an amazing colorist whose death at the age of twenty-seven in World War I was such a huge loss. Macke was drafted and it's doubtful that he wanted to go off to fight, and he perhaps even had a premonition of impending tragedy which he conveyed in Farewell, one of his last works. This painting is called Turkish Cafe II and was done on a trip Macke made to Tunisia, just before reluctantly joining the German armed forces. His good friend and fellow Blaue Reiter member Franz Marc was also killed in World War I in 1916, about two years after August's death.Sunday, January 3, 2010
august born in january
August Macke is definitely on my list of favorite artists, born January 3, 1877 in Meschede, Germany. A key member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, Macke was an amazing colorist whose death at the age of twenty-seven in World War I was such a huge loss. Macke was drafted and it's doubtful that he wanted to go off to fight, and he perhaps even had a premonition of impending tragedy which he conveyed in Farewell, one of his last works. This painting is called Turkish Cafe II and was done on a trip Macke made to Tunisia, just before reluctantly joining the German armed forces. His good friend and fellow Blaue Reiter member Franz Marc was also killed in World War I in 1916, about two years after August's death.