August Robert Ludwig Macke was born in Germany on 3 January 1887, in Meschede, Westphalia.
10 Facts About August Macke
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In 1900, when he was thirteen, the family moved to Bonn, where August Macke studied at the Realgymnasium and became a friend of Walter Gerhardt and Gerhardt's sister, Elisabeth, whom he married a few years later.
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In 1904 August Macke's father died, and in that year August Macke enrolled at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under Adolf Maennchen.
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In Paris, where he traveled for the first time in 1907, August Macke saw the work of the Impressionists, and shortly after he went to Berlin and spent a few months in Lovis Corinth's studio.
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In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, August Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter.
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August Macke's meeting with Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912 was to be a sort of revelation for him.
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The exotic atmosphere of Tunisia, where August Macke traveled in April 1914 with Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet was fundamental for the creation of the luminist approach of his final period, during which he produced a series of works now considered masterpieces, like his famous painting Turkisches Cafe.
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August Macke's career was cut short by his early death in the second month of the First World War at the front in Champagne, France, on 26 September 1914.
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The August Macke Prize, was given the first time in 1959 by the districts Arnsberg, Brilon, Olpe and Meschede, town of birth of August Macke in Germany.
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The August-Macke-Haus is a museum dedicated to August Macke founded in 1991.