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The painter August Macke (1887-1914) made a trip to Tunisia in the spring of 1914 together with his artist colleagues Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet. This trip plunged the three painters into a real creative frenzy. For Macke, this trip to North Africa was also to be the artistic climax of his short life, which ended in early autumn of the same year.
Macke spoke enthusiastically about his African environment as the most beautiful of all, more beautiful than the fragrant Provence: the trip to Tunisia flooded the inspiration and energy of the three painters. While Louis Moillet came home with 14 different works and Paul Klee with 48 drawings and watercolours, Macke had 79 drawings, 33 watercolours and many photographs in his luggage: the trip to Tunisia became an established art historical concept. Macke, Klee and Moilliet immersed themselves in a mysterious wonderland: the flair of Tunis, the medina, the Arabic tangle of languages, old buildings from Greek and Roman times, dromedaries as beasts of burden and Berbers in their traditional, waving robes - all this had fascinated August Macke. But he was particularly impressed by the simple people and their way of life, which he immortalised in many sketches, watercolours and photographs.
The flood of impressions must have put August Macke in an almost ecstatic state - he made one sketch after another: House roofs and views out of the window, small cubic and light yellow painted houses with blue shutters are captured by August Macke in two-dimensional, radiantly bright pictures. The highly sensitive artist feels the colours and light of Tunisia almost physically and describes them as "clear and colourful like a church window". An exotic charm and the very special light of North Africa had already attracted many other artists to Tunisia before Macke and his friends. Early Impressionists were fascinated by the endless expanses of the deserts, the buildings and the high sky over Africa. Thus Pierre Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet had visited Algeria, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter had also visited Tunisia. Wassily Kadinssky published alongside Franz Marc under the synonym "The Blue Rider" as important pioneers of modern art of the 20th century. The inspiration for Macke, Klee and Moilliet's trip to Tunisia was to come from this group of artists.
He had wanderlust for a long time: born in 1887 in Meschede, Sauerland, Macke graduated from the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf and took courses at the School of Arts and Crafts. He designed costumes and decorations before he went on journeys to Belgium, Italy, France, Holland and Switzerland, in order to be able to gather ever new artistic impressions - and so it came to the journey to Tunis, Hammamet and Kairouan. In Tunis unique pictures were created: Macke and Klee turned away from traditional painting styles in order to devote themselves more to the expressionist and cubist developments of abstraction and simplification. This is why Macke today stands for the art of Expressionism. The trip to Tunis had become the absolute highlight of his artistic work. At the end of the trip, the twenty-seven-year-old had to go to the First World War as a soldier. August Macke's life came to an abrupt end on 26 September 1914. He fell at Perthes-les-Hurlus in Champagne.
The painter August Macke (1887-1914) made a trip to Tunisia in the spring of 1914 together with his artist colleagues Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet. This trip plunged the three painters into a real creative frenzy. For Macke, this trip to North Africa was also to be the artistic climax of his short life, which ended in early autumn of the same year.
Macke spoke enthusiastically about his African environment as the most beautiful of all, more beautiful than the fragrant Provence: the trip to Tunisia flooded the inspiration and energy of the three painters. While Louis Moillet came home with 14 different works and Paul Klee with 48 drawings and watercolours, Macke had 79 drawings, 33 watercolours and many photographs in his luggage: the trip to Tunisia became an established art historical concept. Macke, Klee and Moilliet immersed themselves in a mysterious wonderland: the flair of Tunis, the medina, the Arabic tangle of languages, old buildings from Greek and Roman times, dromedaries as beasts of burden and Berbers in their traditional, waving robes - all this had fascinated August Macke. But he was particularly impressed by the simple people and their way of life, which he immortalised in many sketches, watercolours and photographs.
The flood of impressions must have put August Macke in an almost ecstatic state - he made one sketch after another: House roofs and views out of the window, small cubic and light yellow painted houses with blue shutters are captured by August Macke in two-dimensional, radiantly bright pictures. The highly sensitive artist feels the colours and light of Tunisia almost physically and describes them as "clear and colourful like a church window". An exotic charm and the very special light of North Africa had already attracted many other artists to Tunisia before Macke and his friends. Early Impressionists were fascinated by the endless expanses of the deserts, the buildings and the high sky over Africa. Thus Pierre Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet had visited Algeria, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter had also visited Tunisia. Wassily Kadinssky published alongside Franz Marc under the synonym "The Blue Rider" as important pioneers of modern art of the 20th century. The inspiration for Macke, Klee and Moilliet's trip to Tunisia was to come from this group of artists.
He had wanderlust for a long time: born in 1887 in Meschede, Sauerland, Macke graduated from the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf and took courses at the School of Arts and Crafts. He designed costumes and decorations before he went on journeys to Belgium, Italy, France, Holland and Switzerland, in order to be able to gather ever new artistic impressions - and so it came to the journey to Tunis, Hammamet and Kairouan. In Tunis unique pictures were created: Macke and Klee turned away from traditional painting styles in order to devote themselves more to the expressionist and cubist developments of abstraction and simplification. This is why Macke today stands for the art of Expressionism. The trip to Tunis had become the absolute highlight of his artistic work. At the end of the trip, the twenty-seven-year-old had to go to the First World War as a soldier. August Macke's life came to an abrupt end on 26 September 1914. He fell at Perthes-les-Hurlus in Champagne.
_-_(MeisterDrucke-685473).jpg "Arabian Café (Little Turk) by August Macke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-685677).jpg "The Bright House (1st Version) by August Macke")
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.jpg "Small Zoological Garden in Brown and Yellow by August Macke")
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.jpg "In front of the Hat Shop by August Macke")
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.jpg "Willows by the Stream by August Macke")
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.jpg "Walk in Flowers by August Macke")
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.jpg "Reflection in the Shop Window by August Macke")
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.jpg "Forest Walk by August Macke")
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.jpg "Foxgloves in the Garden by August Macke")
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.jpg "Girl under Trees by August Macke")
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.jpg "Sailboat on the Tegernsee by August Macke")
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.jpg "Tunisian Landscape by August Macke")
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.jpg "Large Illuminated Showcase by August Macke")
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.jpg "Couple in the Forest by August Macke")
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.jpg "Still Life with Anemones and Blue Book by August Macke")
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.jpg "Red Tulips in White Vase by August Macke")
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.jpg "Tegernsee Landscape by August Macke")
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.jpg "Colored Forms I by August Macke")
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.jpg "Harbor Scene with Children on the Wall: Duisburg Harbor by August Macke")
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.jpg "Bathing Women by August Macke")
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.jpg "At the Garden Table by August Macke")
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.jpg "Two Ladies in a Café by August Macke")
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.jpg "Colored Form Composition by August Macke")
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.jpg "Donkey Rider by August Macke")
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.jpg "Garden Path by August Macke")
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.jpg "St. Germain Near Tunis by August Macke")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cows and a Camel by August Macke")
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.jpg "Sailboat, Tegernsee by August Macke")
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.jpg "Landscape at Tegernsee by August Macke")
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.jpg "Zoological Garden I by August Macke")
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.jpg "Three Women at the Table by the Lamp, 1912 by August Macke")
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.jpg "Blue Parrots by August Macke")
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.jpg "Four Girls, 1912-1913 by August Macke")
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.jpg "Colonnade with Sailboat I by August Macke")
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.jpg "In the Bazaar, 1914 by August Macke")
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.jpg "Mother with Child by August Macke")
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.jpg "Woman on Balcony by August Macke")
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.jpg "With Yellow Jacket by August Macke")
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.jpg "A Stroll in the Park by August Macke")
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.jpg "Girl with Blue Birds by August Macke")
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.jpg "Sailboat in the Morning by August Macke")
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.jpg "Tightrope Walker by August Macke")
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.jpg "Female Nude IV by August Macke")
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.jpg "Saint George by August Macke")
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.jpg "Tegernsee Landscape by August Macke")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-681759).jpg "Flowers at the Window (Begonias in Pots I) by August Macke")
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.jpg "Portrait with Apples by August Macke")
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.jpg "Couple on the Forest Track by August Macke")
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_1913_-_(MeisterDrucke-804331).jpg "Under the Arbors of Thun (A Strolling Motif). 1913 by August Macke")
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.jpg "Parody of the Blue Rider by August Macke")
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.jpg "Two Girls by August Macke")
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.jpg "After Sunset at the Lake by August Macke")
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.jpg "Walter, Three Days Old by August Macke")
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.jpg "Colored Forms II by August Macke")
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.jpg "Market in Tunis I by August Macke")
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.jpg "Our Garden by the Lake 4 by August Macke")
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.jpg "View from Tegernsee by August Macke")
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.jpg "People at the Blue Lake by August Macke")
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.jpg "The Garden by August Macke")
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.jpg "The Turkish Jeweller by August Macke")
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.jpg "Trees in the Meadow by August Macke")
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.jpg "Market in Tunis II, 1914 by August Macke")
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.jpg "At Lake Thun I by August Macke")
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.jpg "Landscape with Bright Tree by August Macke")
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.jpg "Color Composition II by August Macke")
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.jpg "Mother and Child in the Park by August Macke")
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.jpg "Staudacher House in Tegernsee by August Macke")
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.jpg "Rose Garden in Tegernsee by August Macke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-970672).jpg "Pierrot by August Macke")
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.jpg "Bathing Girls with City in the Background by August Macke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-687617).jpg "Promenade (with White Girl in Half Figure) by August Macke")
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.jpg "Picnic on the Beach by August Macke")
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.jpg "People by the Blue Lake by August Macke")
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.jpg "Seated Nude, Leaning Forward by August Macke")
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.jpg "Fashion Shop in the Arcade by August Macke")
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.jpg "Village Street in Kandern II by August Macke")
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.jpg "Mother with Child, Reading (Elisabeth and Walterchen) by August Macke")
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.jpg "Garden Restaurant by August Macke")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dr. Ludwig Deubner by August Macke")
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.jpg "Under the Thun Laaken by August Macke")
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.jpg "Abstract Forms by August Macke")
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.jpg "Walkers under Trees by August Macke")
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.jpg "Woman with Parrot in a Landscape by August Macke")
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.jpg "Courtyard of the Country House in St. Germain by August Macke")
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.jpg "Suburban Houses by August Macke")
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.jpg "Study of a bright shop window by August Macke")
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.jpg "A. Make by August Macke")
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.jpg "Encounter by August Macke")
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.jpg "Garden Gate by August Macke")
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.jpg "In the Bazaar by August Macke")
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.jpg "Turkish Café by August Macke")
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.jpg "Girl with Horse and Donkey by August Macke")
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.jpg "Naked Girls in the Boat by August Macke")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-179616).jpg "Three Naked Girls (Red and Orange) by August Macke")
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.jpg "Three Nude Women by August Macke")
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.jpg "Naked Girl with Headscarf by August Macke")
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.jpg "Landscape with Church and Path by August Macke")
.jpg "Sunny Path by August Macke")
.jpg "Turkish Café by August Macke")
.jpg "Lady in Green Jacket by August Macke")