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August Macke è stato un pittore tedesco, uno degli esponenti principali del movimento espressionista tedesco Der Blaue Reiter .

Macke visse durante un periodo particolarmente innovativo per l'arte tedesca che vide lo sviluppo dei principali movimenti espressionisti tedeschi nonché l'arrivo dei successivi movimenti di avanguardia che si stavano formando nel resto d'Europa. Come un vero artista del suo tempo, Macke sapeva come integrare nei suoi quadri gli elementi dell'avanguardia che più lo interessavano.

Macke nacque a Meschede in Germania. Suo padre, August Friedrich Hermann Macke , era un imprenditore edile e sua madre, Maria Florentine, nata Adolph , proveniva da una famiglia contadina della regione tedesca del Sauerland. La famiglia visse nella Brüsseler Strasse fino a che August compì 13 anni. Macke trascorse la maggior parte della sua vita creativa a Bonn, ad eccezione di alcuni periodi passati sul lago di Thun in Svizzera e di diversi viaggi a Parigi, Italia, Paesi Bassi e Tunisia.

A Parigi, dove si recò per la prima volta nel 1907, Macke vide l'opera degli impressionisti. Poco dopo mosse a Berlino, dove passò qualche mese nello studio di Lovis Corinth. Il suo stile si formò alla maniera dell'impressionismo francese e del post-impressionismo, e più avanti attraversò un periodo fauve. Nel 1909 sposò Elizabeth Gerhardt. Nel 1910, grazie all'amicizia con Franz Marc, Macke incontrò Kandinsky e per un breve lasso di tempo condivise l'estetica non-oggettuale e gli interessi mistici e simbolici del gruppo Der Blaue Reiter.

L'incontro con Robert Delaunay, avvenuto nel 1912 a Parigi, rappresentò per Macke una sorta di rivelazione. Il cubismo cromatico di Delaunay, che Apollinaire aveva definito orfismo, influenzò la produzione artistica di Macke da lì in avanti. Le sue Vetrine possono essere considerate un'interpretazione personale delle Finestre di Delaunay, combinate con la simultaneità di immagini che si trovano nel futurismo italiano. L'atmosfera esotica della Tunisia, dove Macke si recò nel 1914 con Paul Klee e Louis Moilliet, fu fondamentale per la creazione dell'approccio luminista del suo periodo finale durante il quale produsse una serie di opere ora considerate dei capolavori.

La breve carriera di Macke fu interrotta bruscamente dalla sua prematura scomparsa al fronte della Prima guerra mondiale nel settembre del 1914. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Gennaio 1887 – 26. Settembre 1914
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“I have been in Munich this week, and got to know the whole 'Neue Künstlervereinigung' at [gallery] Tannhauser's – Jawlensky, Kandinsky etc... For Munich they are very, very good, I was interested.”

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Quote in Macke's letter to Franz Marc, September 1910; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 137

“Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, abstract painting, are only names given to a change which our artistic thinking wants to make and is thinking. Nobody has ever painted fallen raindrops suspended in the air, they've always been depicted as streaks (even the cave-men drew herds of reindeer in the same way). Now people are painting cabs rattling, lights flickering, people dancing, all-in the same way (this is how we all see movement). That is thew whole frightfully simple secret of Futurism. Its very easy to prove its artistic feasibility, for all the philosophizing that has been raised against it. Space, surface and time are different things, which ought not to be mixed together, is the continuous cry. If only it were possible to separate them. I can't do it.”

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in a letter to philosopher de:Eberhard Grisebach, March 1913; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, pp. 144-45

“It was the desire for living, vital expression.... which built Gothic cathedrals, which created Mozart sonatas. I believe it is going to stay that way for long time to come.”

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In 'The New Program' (1914) - first appeared in Das neue Program, Kunst und Künstler 12. (March 1914)

“The new discovery that I have made in painting is the following. There are chords of colors, let's say a certain red and green, which move, shimmer when you look at them. Now if you're looking at a tree in a landscape, you can either look at the tree, or at the landscape, but not both, because of the stereoscopic effect. Now, when you are painting something three-dimensional, the chromatic sound which shimmers is the three-dimensional effect of colour, and when you paint a landscape, and the green foliage shimmers a little with the blue sky showing through it, that happens because the green is on a different plane from the sky in nature too. Finding the space-shaping energies of colour, instead of contenting ourselves with a dead chiaroascuro, is our finest task.”

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in a letter to artist de:Hans Thuar, 1913, from Lake Thun in Switzerland; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 145

“He Robert Delaunay gives movement itself [in his pictures], the Futurists only illustrate movement..”

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c. 1913; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 145
Macke visited Delaunay in 1912, in Paris, and Robert Delaunay came to Macke in Bonn, 1913

“I have just been thinking that the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) does not really represent my work. I have always been convinced that other things of mine are more important… Narcism, fake heroism, and blindness have a lot to answer for, in the 'Blaue Reiter'. All those high-sounding words about the birth of a great spiritual moment still resounding in my ears. Kandinsky can air his personal opinion about that or any other revolution he cares to mention. But I dislike the whole thing… Take my advice – work, and don't spent so much time thinking about blue riders or blue horses.”

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In a letter to his friend Franz Marc (Jan. 1912), quoted in 'Meseure 38'; as quoted in Movement, Manifesto, Melee: The Modernist Group, 1910-1914, Milton A. Cohen, Lexington Books, Sep 14, 2004, p. 73, (note 19)

“I have been to [gallery] Hagen, saw two Matisses, which enchanted me. A large collection of Japanese masks. Sublime! 'Neue [Künstler] Vereinigung' were hung in a bad light.... Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Bechteleff and Erbslöh have immense artistic sensibility. But the means of expression are to big for what they have to say. The sound of their voice is so good, so fine, that what is being said get lost. Consequently a human element is missing. They concentrate, too much, I think, on form. There is much to be learnt from their efforts. But early things by Kandinsky, and a few by Jawlensky too, seem a little empty to me. And Jawlensky's heads looked at me a little bit too much with colors. With blue and green. I hope you understand what I mean.”

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in a letter to Franz Marc, 26 December 1910; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 137

“Time' has a large part to play in looking at a picture. A picture (a stupid empty surface to begin with) gets covered in the course of its creation by a rhythmically measured network of colors, lines and dots, which evokes in its final form a total of living movement. The eye jumps from a blue to red, to green (even if there is only a change of form), to a black line, suddenly comes upon a sharp white eruption, follows it, floats on to... It is impossible to take it all-in at once. Time is inseparable from surface.”

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Quote in Macke's letter to philosopher de:Eberhard Grisebach, March 1913; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 145

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