We tarry with the Blue Riders a bit longer to
celebrate the legacy of August Macke.
Not quite a decade younger than his close friend Franz Marc, this son of
Westphalia was also the son of a building contractor (and amateur artist) and a
farmer’s daughter. He grew up in Cologne
and Bonn. While still a schoolboy, he
became friends with another lad named Walter Gerhardt. It sometimes happens that one’s friends have
beautiful sisters and, as it sometimes happens when friends have lovely
siblings, August fell in love with Walter’s sister, the pretty Elisabeth Gerhardt
whom he married and whom the War To End All Wars widowed on the battlefields of
Champagne not three months after the conflict began…
August, born in cold January winds and dead
in September breezes, tell us the meaning behind the enigmatic title, Three Acts-- is it drama of which
you wished to speak in broad strokes of color, or is it the beauty of a lovely woman come to the attention of a
lover, or perhaps you meant to say to say something about life itself…
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| The Artist's Wife, 1909 |
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| Nude with Coral Necklace, 1911 |
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| The Russian Ballet, 1912 |
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| Zoological Garden, 1912 |
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| Landscape with Cows and Camel, circa 1912 |
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| The Sunny Way, 1913 |
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| The Milliner's Shop, 1914 |
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| View into a Lane, 1914 |
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| Three Acts, 1913 |
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