August Macke
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.[1] Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War.
Not to be confused with Auguste Maquet.
August Macke
3 January 1887
26 September 1914 (aged 27)
German Military Cemetery, Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
German
Painting
The artist's wife in blue hat, 1909
Staudacher's house at the Tegernsee, 1910
Landschaft am Tegernsee mit lesendem Mann, 1910
Leute am blauen See, 1913
View into a lane, 1914, watercolor
Hutladen III, 1914
Red house in the park, 1914
Art market[edit]
At a 1997 Christie's auction, Macke's The Couple at a Garden Table (1914) was sold for £2 million.[3] Market in Tunis (1914) sold for £2.86 million ($4.1 million) in 2000.[4] Consigned by the estate of Ernst Beyeler, the artist's In the Bazar (1914) was auctioned for £3.96 million – then four and a half times the high estimate – at Christie's in 2011.[5]
