August Macke: "Four girls" (1912/13), Original Dietz-Replik

About August Macke
1887-1914

bright yellow, bright red, strong blue: The intensity and unique luminosity of the colors are typical of August Macke's work. In his pictures, Macke shows an intact world, prefers people. August Macke was characterized by Rhenish cheerfulness as a person and as a painter and is perhaps precisely because of this one of the best -known German painters of the 20th century.

Macke was a member of the "Blauer Rider" artist association and the most important representative of Rhenish Expressionism. He is considered the greatest German color talent of his generation. But also with his drawings, sketches and designs, he is one of the greats in the art of the 20th century.

August Macke, born on January 3rd, 1887 in Meschede, began studying at the School of Art and Academy in Düsseldorf, but it broke off prematurely. When traveling to France, Italy and the Netherlands, he primarily studied the impressionists. With the artists of the "Blue Rider", which he had known since 1911, he exhibited a few times and participated in the Almanach of the same name. The financial security was secured by his sponsor Bernhard Koehler, an uncle of his wife Elisabeth.