August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist intervention Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly advanced time for German art: he proverb the increase of the main German Expressionist movements as with ease as the beginning of the successive protester movements which were forming in the land of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to join together into his painting the elements of the modern which most keen him. Like his buddy Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the teenager German artists who died in the First World War.
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