August Macke Quotes
To create forms means: to live. Are not children more creative in drawing directly from the secret of their sensations than the imitator of Greek forms? Are not savages artists who have forms of their own powerful as the form of thunder?
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| Birth: | 3rd January, 1887 |
| Death: | 26th September, 1914 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Painter |
About
August Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe.
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