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AUGUSTE MACKE German 1887-1914 OOC Portrait

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AUGUSTE MACKE German 1887-1914 OOC Portrait
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Oil on canvas. Featuring a portrait. Signed and attr. Auguste Macke (German, 1887-1914). Gallery label, "Galerie du Parnasse," on verso. 10.2 x 7.5 in. (26 x 19 cm). August Macke was born in Meschede, Germany. His father, August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845-1904), was a building contractor and his mother, Maria Florentine, née Adolph, (1848-1922), came from a farming family in Germany's Sauerland region. The family lived at Brüsseler Straße until August was 13. He then lived most of his creative life in Bonn, with the exception of a few periods spent at Lake Thun in Switzerland and various trips to Paris, Italy, Holland and Tunisia. In Paris, where he traveled for the first time in 1907, Macke saw the work of the Impressionists, and shortly after he went to Berlin and spent a few months in Lovis Corinth's studio. His style was formed within the mode of French Impressionism and Post-impressionism and later went through a Fauve period. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Gerhardt. In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter. PROVENANCE: Galerie du Parnasse.(Paris, France). Private estate (Perugia, Italy)