August Macke Art Prints

Born in Meschede on 3 January 1887, August Macke entered the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in 1904. His attraction for innovative subjects soon led him to follow evening classes at the School of Decorative Arts, and he left the Academy in 1906. He then decided to travel to improve his knowledge of art; he visited Italy, Holland, Belgium and London, finally discovering impressionism in Paris in 1907. This discovery changed his approach to painting. On his return to Bonn, he decided to work out of doors. Influenced by impressionist painting, and by Seurat, Cézanne and Matisse, he produced his oil sketch: Arbre dans un champ de blé. (Tree in a wheat field)